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574 fake landascapes 90cm high balcony screening bamboo in 90x20x18 planters and slate surfacing

A more human scale for this one – these are our narrow (only 18cm deep) planters on a glazed balcony with lightly planted 1m fine leaf bamboo – so you lose the minimum of floor space. Again, easy to see out - but plenty of privacy if you wanted to wear a kilt. 574

573 fake landscapes bamboos 10m vodafone hq

Ok, here come the giant ones! Vodafone HQ, they’re 11m tall and the brief was that people would look out at greenery from all the floors. They came in to the building horizontally and it took eight of us to get them upright! As an idea of scale, there’s a person on the sofa lower right, and that’s part of a Formula One car… 573

572 Fake Landscapes 190cm oriental bamboo and matt planters

A stylish balcony run of individual bamboo in tapered planters, the idea being to break the view without losing too much light. You can see out but they can’t see in. Whoever ‘they’ may be… 572

571 fake landscapes Harrods restaurant terrace bamboo

Another terrace, this time the restaurant on the 5th floor at Harrods. The bamboo are only 90cm tall and are actually between two sheets of safety glass. We had to slide them in from one end, like diabolical Lego! There’s marram grass in-between the troughs, as well. 571

570 bamboo white city wip Wed

Ok, just showing off! Here’s a mix of the usual roof terrace suspects, olives, rosemary, marram grass – plus three really chunky groups of bamboo, double density to work as a wind break. 570

548 marram on a bleak day in SW11

High up in Battersea somewhere on a grey day, another envelope planter with decent height to lose the neighbours. With frosted glass, apparently, it’s their shadows that are most disturbing! 548

547 fake landscapes marram grass in clients curved planter

A curved steel planter to match the sweep of the stucco – very neat, and again a lot of attention to detail from designer and client. We had to cut the stems of all the marram as it was so shallow, took ages - which resulted in grumpy elves… 547

546 Fake landscapes UV russet marram grass in 60cm planters

This is the same Bayswater penthouse as the earlier night shot. I’d like to think the iron sculpture in the background is a Gormley, his stuff is lovely. It may just be a rusty bloke without strides on, though! Regardless, he goes nicely with the russet grass. 546

545 weird heads 545

No, me neither! These are workshop snaps with our new grey-green marram, when we check how things look before they go out. The eye forgives a lot but the camera doesn’t miss anything. What’s odd is that about a month after we did this, another weird head came in from someone else to have hydrangeas in it. Looked like a brain when completed! 545

544 fake landscapes russet marram grass on an equally grim day in Whitstable

Here’s the russet marram grass being used in tall envelope planters to separate a balcony in a rather bleak Whitstable. It’s a very grainy picture and I don’t know why we focused on the horizon. Two out of ten for artistic interpretation… 544

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