Exploring local garden shows is an excellent way to gain inspiration and ideas for our own gardens. This show, entitled Alice in Bloomland, is combines a theatrical fairyland approach to garden design. The superb FujiFilm X10 on the Velvia film setting was used to capture the images in this gallery.
Mushrooms as garden art greet visitors to the Alice in Bloomland garden show.
A vintage clock surrounded by flowers provides inspiration for your own garden.
Incorporating garden art into your space can lift an ordinary area into a vibrant corner of the yard.
A large chess piece takes centre stage in this garden vignette.
Larger view of the welcome sign. Notice the texture of the garden with small additions of colour.
This garden vignette incorporates natural garden art with the mushrooms together with texture the foliage provides.
Orchids were used to provide colour and natural flowers in the show. There is no reason not to bring your orchids outside during summer to add flowers to selected areas all summer.
A table setting combines nature with multiple vignettes focussed on colourful table accoutrements.
Moss combines with vintage dishwear. Imagine creating similar vignettes in your own garden using china from your local thrift store.
Another view of the table setting showing the moss-covered table and elegant dining room chair.
A natural table setting illustrating the use of colour set against live natural moss.
Moss is used as a natural backdrop for these colourful macarons.
A lovely garden vignette using stylized toadstools to add colour to the garden floor.
Orchid up close.
Alice herself even showed up at the show.
The king and queen surrounded by roses. If gardeners can take anything out of scenes like this, it is to use a mass of colour boldly in their own gardens.
Painting the town red.
Painting the town red.
By using the red extraction filter on the FujiFilm X10, I was able to create a black and white image with only the colour red extracted.
By using the red extraction filter on the FujiFilm X10, I was able to create a black and white image with only the colour red extracted.
Another example of the effectiveness of using one of the many extraction filters available in a number of cameras.
A close-up using the red extraction filter built into the Fuji X10 camera.