How does one water THIS garden?

[GrannieAnnie]

somebody mailed this to me- it didn't say where or whose garden it is.

[star]

Someone posted this pic last year GA, I believe its Spain or Italy.

Its still amazing to see....so pretty. I guess they are fitted with an irrigation system with white tubes.

unless they are all airbrushed on of course 

[saddad]

Spray and be damned......
 

[debster]

simple leave the bath running with the plug in lol 

[ninnyscrops]

Sure beats pebble dash 

[GrannieAnnie]

Sure beats pebble dash    And what on earth is "pebble dash"??

[asbean]

Pebbles are the stones you get on a beach that is not a sandy beach. They can vary in size from quite large to tiny.

Pebble dash is a form of rendering on the outside of a house. I think first a layer of cement (or similar) then that is blasted with pebbles which stick to the cement and form the decoration on the wall.  Popular in the middle of the last century (20th)

We had a pebble dash house in Seaton, Devon,when I was a child, and I spent hours checking the walls for tiny shells - I found them probably a dozen or so over the whole house.  It was only pebble dashed halfway up the walls.

If you google pebble dash for images you'll get quite a few sites that explain how it's done and examples.

[GrannieAnnie]

Pebbles are the stones you get on a beach that is not a sandy beach. They can vary in size from quite large to tiny.

Pebble dash is a form of rendering on the outside of a house. I think first a layer of cement (or similar) then that is blasted with pebbles which stick to the cement and form the decoration on the wall.  Popular in the middle of the last century (20th)

We had a pebble dash house in Seaton, Devon,when I was a child, and I spent hours checking the walls for tiny shells - I found them probably a dozen or so over the whole house.  It was only pebble dashed halfway up the walls.

If you google pebble dash for images you'll get quite a few sites that explain how it's done and examples.

similar I guess to our stucco walls but with more texture.  Thank you for the definition. Often I'm not sure if it is some British slang on this forum I'm reading. Your word "fleecing" for example always jolts me. Here it means to take advantage or steal from some unwary person and has nothing to do with gardening.

[Kea]

Fleecing can mean that here to but not in the gardening context.

Pebble dashing is very common in the UK but I'd never seen it before I came here. If you have stucco and then blast small stones at it while it's still wet that's pebble dashing.

What I want to know is how they got all those plants there in the first place!

[Barnowl]

Watering Solution...

[Old bird]

The garden is a bit OTT don't you think?  Not a lot of variety there plant wise!

Old Bird
 

[GrannieAnnie]

and the women look exhausted and are  muttering, "Who dreamed up this crazy garden anyway?"

[carolinej]

I reckon the group on the one side have realised the difficulties, but the old lady with her arms folded is saying,'I dont care, they're staying!'

cj

[GrannieAnnie]

I reckon the group on the one side have realised the difficulties, but the old lady with her arms folded is saying,'I dont care, they're staying!'

cj

and the lone woman in the upper left hand corner is being shunned because she wouldn't knuckle under and help water.

[asbean]

Is that a cat, dog or giant sausage in front ofthem they seem to be looking at?

[carolinej]

If its a dog, then perhaps they are wondering how to fit it into absailing gear to go up and water the plants. If it's a giant sausage, well, I'm not going there

cj

[Pesky Wabbit]

It could well be watered by someone jumping off the roof on a bungee.

[springbok]

Has anyone noticed that no shadows are cast on the walls by the pots lol.

On closer inspection I think you will find its a joke!!.. coz try spotting the difference on some of the pots lol  

[debster]

i think theyre trying to persuade someone to water the plants whilst they go on holiday 

[GrannieAnnie]

Has anyone noticed that no shadows are cast on the walls by the pots lol.

On closer inspection I think you will find its a joke!!.. coz try spotting the difference on some of the pots lol  

Judging from the shadows under their chairs it might be almost high noon. There seems to be a slight cast shadow on the right hand wall just to the right of those pots. Try enlarging the view- it looks like the flowers are growing differently in all the pots.

It seems real to me- maybe something a restaurant would do outside to decorate?
Or someone who was potty trained too early?