Chinese Garden
July 20th 2008 07:24
Made a short visit today, to the new Chinese Garden here in Dunedin. It’s only been open officially for a week or two, but already there’s had to be some repair work. When you go in there are a number of little stands with nothing on them. Seems that there were tabletops on these, but some child stood on one, tipped it over and broke it. So there are no tabletops at all, at present.
Probably the child’s parents were paying more attention to their playstation 3 (or some more portable toy) than to the child.
That problem apart, the Garden is lovely and quite different to what I expected. (Maybe I had a Japanese garden in mind!). It’s perhaps more austere than I expected, but I think that may be because the foliage is still in quite early stages. Once it’s all grown up around the rocks and walls and so on, it’ll look better.
Though the rocks have a feeling of having been there for years, it’s an illusion. Give them another year of weathering and small children climbing over them and they’ll have some real aging. And a few more goldfish won’t go amiss. No doubt the goldfish themselves will attend to that, if some large birds don’t get to them first.
The Garden isn’t huge – you could walk around it in a few minutes – but the vistas in any direction are lovely. There’s an immense amount of detail, and you keep discovering things every time you glance at a different angle. No wonder they were so long working on it.
We’ve bought ourselves a season ticket (slightly less than the price of two full price tickets combined) so we’ll go back when things have had a bit more time to grow. And when the sun is shining.
There's a great set of photos on Flickr.com of the Garden. Better than anything else I could find to put in here.
Probably the child’s parents were paying more attention to their playstation 3 (or some more portable toy) than to the child.
That problem apart, the Garden is lovely and quite different to what I expected. (Maybe I had a Japanese garden in mind!). It’s perhaps more austere than I expected, but I think that may be because the foliage is still in quite early stages. Once it’s all grown up around the rocks and walls and so on, it’ll look better.
Though the rocks have a feeling of having been there for years, it’s an illusion. Give them another year of weathering and small children climbing over them and they’ll have some real aging. And a few more goldfish won’t go amiss. No doubt the goldfish themselves will attend to that, if some large birds don’t get to them first.
The Garden isn’t huge – you could walk around it in a few minutes – but the vistas in any direction are lovely. There’s an immense amount of detail, and you keep discovering things every time you glance at a different angle. No wonder they were so long working on it.
We’ve bought ourselves a season ticket (slightly less than the price of two full price tickets combined) so we’ll go back when things have had a bit more time to grow. And when the sun is shining.
There's a great set of photos on Flickr.com of the Garden. Better than anything else I could find to put in here.
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Comment by TimmyH
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Can you HACK it?
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Even if I did have to sneak in at 3am high on magic mushrooms lol
Ohhh wait, maybe thats what made it so good haha
Comment by Mike Crowl
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