Flower Tower in Alaska Bashny.Net

Visit the 50-crowie Glacier Gardens in Alaska and You'll behold a strange sight. Dozens of trees with their tops driven into the ground, and the roots hanging in the air. Unlike the Baobab, the upside-down trees in the Gardens of the Glacier is not natural, it is the result of the work of landscape designers Steve and Cindy Bowhay, owners of Glacier Garden.





Upside down trees, known as “Flower Towers” are local Sitka spruce and Western Hemlock, felled by a landslide in 1984 that uprooted most of the vegetation of the mountains. Steve gathered the felled trees, turned, replaced and turned them into natural flower pots. Tops buried several feet in the ground, while the roots become a nest for bright colored begonias, fuchsias, and petunias.

The landslide of 1984, which has filled the trees, also destroyed a large part of the slope of Thunder Mountain. A decade later, Bohai bought six acres of land and began the restoration. Steve designed the electric generators, and special waterways to slow erosion. It was during the landscaping began to emerge a vision of a tropical forest with waterfalls and panoramic views. It ended up being that they acquired an additional 44.5 acres and enlarged their landscaping plan to create a public garden.









During the recovery process, Steve accidentally damaged the car on landscaping. In a fit of frustration, he used a machine to lift a large fallen tree stump and slam them upside down in soft mud.And there was a vision of how to make the garden original and unusual.

Today, the Park is dotted with about a hundred upside-down trees, each of which is aligned with the mesh, moss, and topped with 75-100 annual flowers.

 








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