Create a Scene in Malvern, PA (during the Philly Fling)

Create a Scene, what a name right? It is the garden of floral designer Michael Bowell and the artist Simple.
This was a garden where we all (almost 100 of us) visited at the same time, instead of splitting and going to two separate gardens and then flipping. So in other words, this was a large garden...

It was also an incredibly personal garden and one I really loved exploring.


Yes, there is always an agave IF you look hard enough. Unfortunately sometimes it's not real.
While time has blurred my memories of visiting in person (what fun it was to go through the photos), I don't know that I would really have any more to say if I had posted the week after returning home. Mostly I just walked around with my mouth hanging open and my camera clicking.

There was a sort of nursery area in front the home. Not that any of the plants were for sale.

I wanted this strange shelving, seeing it again I am scheming how this would translate to my garden.



You've seen flashes of that barn red in previous photos, that indeed Michael and Simple's home.




As I explored this far off section of the garden I wondered if anyone would notice if I didn't make it back to the bus, would they come looking for me?



Luckily I made it back to the home to explore the greenhouses with my fellow Flingers.
More empty shelves...
This was all attached to the side of the home.





I think there's a pot under there, somewhere?
Greenhouses spaces are so mysterious and magical, especially when they're a little overgrown and abandoned. I was in heaven here.

Yep, I'm coveting that shelving too...

Oh look, a hot tub! Imagine wandering out of your home, through your greenhouse, and into your hot tub. Damn.



There was more than just one greenhouse structure, there was a whole series of them of different sizes and materials.
Back outside now. Here you can see the meeting of the house and the large glass greenhouse.
Fellow Flingers...
Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a cat?
The spaces in between...
And the final photo. Are you intrigued? Confused? In awe? Me too.