In light of rising produce prices and food-safety scares, most homeowners noted they're ready to trade in their lawns and ornamental outdoor installations for fruit and vegetable gardens, reducing water and resource consumption.
Through Feb. 10, "Ornamental Instincts," an installation that showcases natural habitats.
Environmental horticulture firms provide a variety of commercial/residential landscape products and services encompassing ornamental plant production, design, installation, and maintenance.
Far from fusty, this National Trust property is hosting a summer biennial (tattonparkbiennial.org, until 26 September) of contemporary art, with some quirky installations in the ornamental gardens.
Under the dripping trees of Caledonian Park there are perched – it is the most enticing part of the evening – pocket human installations, 21st-century equivalents of ornamental hermits.
More directly involved in production, there are firms that provide services for the design and installation of greenhouses (used for ornamentals, flowers and mini vegetables), installation of irrigation systems, pollination with bees, land preparations, etc.
And most recently, for a permanent installation at the West Hollywood Library, he created an ornamental hybrid, "Platanus Bibliotechalis," a book-loving subspecies of the local sycamore trees, trained into a towering free-form arbor rising over 60 feet in the building's vast, sky-lighted central staircase.
Assemble recently established the Granby Workshop in the area, a social enterprise to train local young people to make furnishings for the new homes – from sculptural fireplaces to ornamental ceiling roses and doorknobs – products that are likely to loom large in their installation at the forthcoming Turner show at Tramway in Glasgow.
"Ornamental," the gardener said.
The orneriness becomes ornamental.
