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THIS IS THE ULTIMATE IN SCULPTURED GARDENING COMPETITION IN THE WORLD.

Happy viewing

TONY CHACKO

International  Mosaiculture  Exhibition

  Montreal - Summer 2013

 

 

Even if you're not into gardening yourself, the plant sculptures in the international Montreal Mosaiculture Exhibition will blow your mind. As defined in the official website of the event, mosaiculture "is a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials)." It is also a highly complex form of art, requiring different sets of skills from all the participating artists: not only do they have to plan and build the framework of the sculpture and match the colors, it is also important to understand the maintenance of each plant they use.

 

The Mosaïcultures Internationale competition was founded back in 2000 by Lise Cormier after her visit to China: this is where Lisa saw an enchanting 40-feet-high sculpture of 3 doves and was instantly inspired to bring the idea back home.

 

Considered the world's most prestigious competition of horticultural art, the 2013 edition of Mosaiculture is currently on display at Montreal Botanical Garden in Quebec, Canada. More than three million flowers were raised in greenhouses throughout Quebec, and then shipped to the gardens in May, where designers wrapped them in steel meshes to create living works of art. The sculptures are created using steel or aluminum forms that are wrapped in metal mesh, filled with earth and planted with flowers, ivies and grasses whose foliage provides texture and color. Interior watering systems and growing medium were added so that the flowers could last all through the summer till the end of the exhibition on September 29.

 

Some 50 works graces the 2.2 km circuit through the enchanting grounds of the Botanical Garden. The theme this year is "Land of Hope". About 200 of the world's most talented horticultural artists are taking part in this international competition, representing 20 countries. Entries have come from cities in countries as far as Turkey and Uganda, with China and Japan heavily represented.

  

 

 

 

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Barn  Owl

 

 

 

Bird   Tree.  This huge sculpture is 40 feet high and they built  special high bridge at this
end so people could take photographs more easily.  Every branch becomes a different bird.
The wing span of the condor must be at least 8 feet.

THIS IS INDEED A SPECTACULAR WORK OF ART

 

 

 

Big  Flowers.  These are growing in the midst of the Exhibition Gardens, some of the
thirty gardens which comprise the Botanic Garden.  Notice the bee.

 

 

 

Butterflies.  They are about eight feet high and stand outside the Insectarium,
a building housing exhibits of insects.

 

 

 

 

Two Canoes.  The theme of this year's show is the unity of nature and the
importance of ecological planning.

 

The Old Man Who Planted Trees,  Horses,  Dog,  and  Sheep
The Old Man is about 20 feet high.

 

 

 

Flock  of  Sheep, plus one goat.  They are all part of a huge display around the
Man Who Planted Trees  (below). 

 

 

 

Single  Sheep

 

 

 

Caterpillar, outside Insectarium

 

 

 

 

Easter  Island  Heads

 

 

 

 

Clown Fish Swimming through Seaweed

 

 

 

 

Crouching  Frog and Lily Pond.

 

Frog  in  Lily  Pond




 

 

Goat  at  Well

 

 

 

 

Horses  and  Sheep Dog.  The dog is very famous in Japan and everyone knows him.
He accompanied his master to the railroad station ever morning when the man went
to work, and then the dog met him again in the evening.  When the man died, the dog
continued meeting the train twice every day for ten years until he died.  He is made up
of various decorative grasses.  The horses' manes are also made of grasses.
The horses are twice the size of a normal horse; the dog is 8 feet high.

 

 

 

 

Closeup  of  Horse

 

 

 

 

Lady  and  Cranes  /  Chinese  Myth.   The lady is about 35 feet high.

 

 

 

 

Lady  and  Cranes  /  Chinese  Myth

 

 

 

 

Line  of  Lemurs at entrance to Gardens

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lemurs

 

 

 

 

Man  Who  Planted  Trees.  He is 20 feet high.

 

 

 

 

Pandas  and  Bamboo

 

 

 

 

Pandas

 

 

 

Piano  and  Tortoise /  The Arts  and Nature Support Each Other

 

 

 

 

Spirit  of  the  Woods.  The body of the serpent actually snakes around the woods
for more than 300 yards.

 

 

 

 

Phoenix  Bird - colossal and with flowers.

 

 

 

 

Mother  Earth

 

 

 

Water is a gift of Mother Earth, enjoyed by wild horses and eagles.


 

 

The sign said these are Swans.

 

 

 

 

Gorillas / Endangered Species

 

 

Moose  and  Squirrels  -  all made of moss.



 

 

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