Decorative Garden Stakes - Holiday Decoration Ideas
Decorative Garden Stakes
- A large public hall
- a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
- A piece of ground, often near a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables
- the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
- Ornamental grounds laid out for public enjoyment and recreation
- (stake) venture: put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"
- A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, act as a boundary mark, etc
- A metalworker's small anvil, typically with a projection for fitting into a socket on a bench
- stake: the money risked on a gamble
- (stake) interest: (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future"
- A long vertical rod used in basket-making
Garden of Hope, Early Design
Pardon the lack of perspective; I got lazy.
This drawing shows the arrangement of the wind organ pillars. The shortest is 2 ft and the tallest is 7 ft, including the bottle. The bottle is supported by a
garden stake and a rebar. A pin at the top of the bottle allows it to spin on the end of the rebar. The vane on top of each bottle keeps the slit in the side oriented toward the wind at all times.
The golden pillars underneath the bottles are purely decorative. They have no function, other than to keep people from bumping into the steel supports and to hide the works inside.
Each bottle is illuminated at night by a series of white LEDs, which are powered by a series of batteries. We can add some batteries in parallel and let them burn all week long.
The pillars are made of cardboard, and maybe a little wood. We could take off the bottles and burn the pillars when we are done.
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UPDATE: This design was discarded in favor of the art-deco tulip motif.
NYC - West Village: Downing Playground - Sir Winston Churchill Square
This garden and sitting area was named by Parks in honor of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, whose official residence, located at 10 Downing Street in London, shares the name of one of the bordering streets. Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Brooklyn. Her father, prosperous financier Leonard Walter Jerome, opened the Jerome Park Racetrack in the Bronx in 1866, where the first Belmont Stakes was run.
Parks purchased this .05-acre parcel in 1943. The sitting area, designed by George Vellonakis, was rebuilt from 1998 to 1999 to incorporate garden spaces, a pedestal mounted armillary and a decorative, gated iron fence. The Bedford Downing Block Association continues to be an important force behind the maintenance and upkeep of Churchill Square, ensuring that it remains the peaceful oasis that it is now for years to come.
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