{"id":8431,"date":"2012-06-01T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:03:13","slug":"floating-forest-garden-design-for-the-2012-chelsea-fringe-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/floating-forest-garden-design-for-the-2012-chelsea-fringe-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Forest garden design for the 2012 Chelsea Fringe Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDp016lTX54\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn rich soil, forest trees will flourish for a century, sheltering fauna and flora. Then they can serve humans for centuries to come. For the 2012 Chelsea Fringe, 600 discs of sliced pine forest have floated from Canada to London&#8217;s Portobello Dock. We welcome them.<br \/>\nThe Floating Forest Garden was sponsored by Quebec&#8217;s Grand-M\u00e9tis International Garden Festival (220 miles north of Quebec City). The festival is near Reford Gardens (Jardins de M\u00e9tis) &#8211; which were founded by Elsie Reford.  The garden design is by NIPpaysage &#8211; a group of Canadian landscape architects. They came together at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (in 2001) and have received many awards.<br \/>\nThe Dock Kitchen (Portobello Docks, 344\/342 Ladbroke Grove, Kensal Road, London, W10 5BU) is Stevie Parle\u2019s West London restaurant. It overlooks the Grand Union Canal and the Tom Dixon shop is also here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rich soil, forest trees will flourish for a century, sheltering fauna and flora. Then they can serve humans for centuries to come. For the 2012 Chelsea Fringe, 600 discs of sliced pine forest have floated from Canada to London&#8217;s Portobello Dock. We welcome them. The Floating Forest Garden was sponsored by Quebec&#8217;s Grand-M\u00e9tis International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}