Zeroscape or water-smart? I break for palm trees…
Posted October 22, 2010 by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach
I suppose you could consider them garden art…or a kind of denial. You find them here and there across the Metro area (I have assembled quite a collection of pictures!): ersatz, metallic palm trees. There are at least a half dozen “plantings” around the Denver area, and that’s probably quite enough I would think. Like astroturf, this is one more nihilistic response to the high plains climate. Denial? Whimsy? As a lover of chlorophyll, I can’t get too excited about a plastic or metallic tree.
In a recent Denver Post article, water rates are expected to skyrocket next year. Why not pave Denver in astroturf and plant fake palms up and down our streets?
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