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Axel Erlandson - was highly unusual farmer who knew how to train trees to grow in accordance with its design ideas. Birch, willow and many other trees turned into rings, hearts, various ladders. Unfortunately, he is dead for half a century, but it has followers who still use his skill in modern design. The family of this talented self-taught gardener, emigrated to the US from Sweden and settled in California in 1902. The boy disappeared from his childhood in the fields, watching the growth of the plant, trying to unravel the secrets of nature and learn her magic. And when he grew up, he started his own farm, and engaged in the cultivation of beans.





Fertile land and natural instinct - if he talked to plants - brings excellent yields. Family business went up the hill. To entertain themselves and their families Axel decided to experiment with their own garden trees, turning it into a kind of fairy gallery.



The difference between living sculptures innovator of classical sculpture park was that Elradson mainly worked with the trunk and branches, achieving amazing results. Wood-gazebo, wood-ladder, a tree-man, wooden chair! A talented gardener learned to create a variety of shapes. When he was asked the secret of why others can not repeat the like, and in his hands turns into a living tree pliant wax or clay, he replied: "I just ask them about it».



And yet, it was said, the farmer has a wonderful secret composition, through which you can splice any cuts and connections trunks and branches. By experimenting with grafting, pruning, applying the design of his own invention, he enthusiastically busy in the garden all day long and did not count on any popular.

But people are greedy for novelty, besides the rumors in the countryside spread quickly. His garden unexpectedly became host to a local point of interest: stare at the strange trees, sculptures gathered people from all around. Deciding not to resist suddenly fell down on his fame, Axl Elradson acquired land in the village of Scotts Valley at the intersection of several roads lively, transplanted to their best specimens and in 1947 inaugurated a garden-museum "Woody circus».



After the death of Axel in 1964 for a long time his case was virtually no followers. But in 1996, his compatriots Peter Cook and Becky North, inspired by the heritage Elradsona, lit up the idea to grow living furniture and called his art pooktre - art control the shape of growing trees.

Although, for example, the cultivation of chairs stretched to 15 years, they have plenty of orders. Even Japanese bonsaists and their demanding environment is very difficult to please, have recognized the unusual skills of Peter and Becky. However, they say themselves - to what is happening Elradson, it is still far.





Source: gorod-77.livejournal.com