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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Daisy on November 06, 2013, 08:29:44 AM

Title: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: Daisy on November 06, 2013, 08:29:44 AM

I found this on another forum and was aghast at how mankind can make beautiful flowers look really ugly.
I cannot believe that anyone visiting this garden would like it....
...and when I think of the water needed to make this display, well, words fail me!
Daisy :)

http://www.weather.com/home-garden/backyard/dubai-miracle-garden-20130305

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: David Dickinson on November 08, 2013, 03:39:49 AM

Couldn't agree more - please send us some more pics of your truly wonderful garden to cheer us up after seeing that travesty of a garden! :)

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: JTh on November 10, 2013, 03:19:41 PM

They say it is 'the world's largest natural flower garden', my concept of what is natural is not qiuite the same

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: Caroline on September 17, 2014, 01:13:47 AM

Yick - how horrible!   Just confirms that money does not equal taste...

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: Pauline on September 17, 2014, 06:36:00 AM

Gosh, it really is east meets west, as in Disney meets Dubai. Victorian carpet bedding gone really bad!

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: Trevor Australis on September 18, 2014, 12:31:10 AM

Who was the landscape architect for this post-Modernist mish-mash? Last year I heard Martha Schwarz talking about a big project she was commissioned to do in Dubai. I hope it wasn't her.

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: David Bracey on September 19, 2014, 12:02:54 PM

There are 394 more photographs on Trip Advisor!  It is certainly different!

Title: Re: How to make flowers look ugly
Post by: John J on February 13, 2015, 07:50:12 AM

A neighbouring couple (Cypriots) have just returned from visiting their son and his family in Dubai. While there he took them to see this garden. Apparently it is visited by millions of people but is only open for part of the year as during the hottest months everything is burnt off by the sun. What a waste.