'Topiary Joe's' High End Grass Sculptures
Today I read an article about a man called Joe Kyte who makes grass sculptures.
His method is American portable-style topiary, in which he crafts a shape with a metal frame and stuffs the openings with longhair sphagnum moss. He then plants annuals, herbs, perennials or succulents that take root in the dead moss. His greenery of choice is ivy or creeping fig. “We pin the ivy down with hairpins,” he says.
He creates sculptures like cars, diamond rings, unicorns, and pretty much anything you can think of. The prices range from $500 for a heron to a $90,000 for a 45-foot dinosaur to a huge $400,000 for an American Express project in eight cities. The sculptures can sustain themselves, as they have irrigation systems built in.
I think this is a very cool idea, a living sculpture that looks good and doesn't require maintenance!
His website says:
His method is American portable-style topiary, in which he crafts a shape with a metal frame and stuffs the openings with longhair sphagnum moss. He then plants annuals, herbs, perennials or succulents that take root in the dead moss. His greenery of choice is ivy or creeping fig. “We pin the ivy down with hairpins,” he says.
He creates sculptures like cars, diamond rings, unicorns, and pretty much anything you can think of. The prices range from $500 for a heron to a $90,000 for a 45-foot dinosaur to a huge $400,000 for an American Express project in eight cities. The sculptures can sustain themselves, as they have irrigation systems built in.
I think this is a very cool idea, a living sculpture that looks good and doesn't require maintenance!
His website says:
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