Pantheon of Horticultural Achievements

[zephirine]

Thank you so much, Maggi, I'll think about it for the future, for sure...
Want another (free!) idea? Look at those delicate, lovely, white and purple "teeth"  (molars?) around The Achievement.
To complete the masterpiece, why not add some modern sculture, featuring a giant toothpaste tube and toothbrush, tenderly intertwined, in artistically selected colors...maybe bright red and yellow would be nice, what do you think?
Zeph

[Maggi Young]

....and leading to sponsorship from nearby dentists! great idea!

[Paul T]

The scary part is just how big that initial garden is..... when you realise the people in the background, those "molars" are something like 6 feet tall.  Yikes!!

I actually don't the last one posted...... er, should I have admitted that out loud?

[Lesley Cox]

How lovely it would be, Lesley!
Another improvement could have been to instal a few mirrors in the background of The Achievement, so that it would appear to repeat indefinitely to the eyes of the admiring passer-by....

But that could have lead to a whole series of suicides right down the street, as the passers by passed by.

Talking of teeth, unless David Lyttle or someone local gets there before me, I'll post a picture of a Dunedin sculpture on our harbour foreshore, in a few days. I have to go to town tomorrow and hope to get my camera sorted. Or I can use Roger's.

[David Lyttle]

Talking of teeth, unless David Lyttle or someone local gets there before me, I'll post a picture of a Dunedin sculpture on our harbour foreshore, in a few days. I have to go to town tomorrow and hope to get my camera sorted. Or I can use Roger's.

Oh, the Portsmouth Drive guano catchers. I will leave it to you Lesley. I am confident you can do them justice and promote our fair city and its marvels!

[Lesley Cox]

Well I have to post them now, don't I. Fortunately my camera is not a write-off as I thought in my later Australian days. The connections were all cleaned with something smelling nasty and it works just fine again. All those brand new batteries that I nearly threw out!

On a damp day last week I took these, of what must be teeth (has anyone actually SAID what they're supposed to be David?) on Portsmouth Drive, here in Dunedin. There are 6, in two groups of 3. Between the tooth and the gum is a thick layer of twisted rope at about shoulder height for me, so these chompers are really BIG! As David remarked, they are also guano catchers, being popular perches for local gulls.

[Paddy Tobin]

Is there a local school of dentistry?

Paddy

[Mick McLoughlin]

Yes Leslie apparently they are actually supposed to be teeth.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Oamaru-tooth-sculptures-add-new-taste-to-Dunedin/tabid/420/articleID/150161/Default.aspx

[Lesley Cox]

Yes Leslie apparently they are actually supposed to be teeth.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Oamaru-tooth-sculptures-add-new-taste-to-Dunedin/tabid/420/articleID/150161/Default.aspx

Thanks Mick, I had missed that when it was published. Of course as the article says, the rope separates the tooth from the roots, not the gum, as I said above. Not thinking straight.

Yes Paddy, Dunedin has the country's only dental school, for which I'm very grateful. The standard of work by students (3rd and 4th year) is exceptionally high and closely monitored at every step by their tutors, and costs, to the public, less than one quarter of what the same work would cost from a fully practising dentist. So many people just can't affort dental work at all so in Dunedin, the local poor (we are many) have this excellent option that others through the country don't. At present, roughly 75% of dental students come from China, Iran and parts of S E Asia and are paying students, at a much higher rate than NZers are.

[ranunculus]

So few contributions to this esteemed thread?  I expected it to be overwhelmed with horticultural 'hiccups' ... perhaps we are too consumed with pure beauty to notice the glorious 'cock-ups' in our gardens?   

A public garden feature in the centre of Lugano ... not a tragedy, but what a waste ... this could have been sensational?

[JPB]

My "Pantheon of Horrificultural Achievements":
http://www.keukenhof.nl/en/ 

[Lori S.]

Oops, no, I should not show what I was going to show here! 

[Maggi Young]

Oops, no, I should not show what I was going to show here! 

 Ohhhh, go on, spoil us!

[ranunculus]

Don't put yourself in a compromising situation, Lori ... this topic wasn't designed for that!   

[Maggi Young]

Oops, no, I should not show what I was going to show here! 

 Ohhhh, go on, spoil us!

Don't put yourself in a compromising situation, Lori ... this topic wasn't designed for that!   

Of course not, Lori, I was only teasing!