Black Rock Botanical

themom · Post by **themom** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:58 pm

We want to bring a professionally landscaped BLACK ROCK BOTANICAL camp to reality.
Looking to express our plan to potential members willing to share all the necessary ideas, labor, team effort, and of course $$$$...to help make the 'flora meet the playa'.
The basic plan is to enter the cobblestone pathway, lit by street lamps, winding throught multi level gardens with a variety of plants and decor. Music, resting benches and ponds with waterfalls will offer a peaceful refuge.
Our home base is in extreme North CA on the coast...small isolated town. We are currently a very small group witha few members from the mid-west. We are not yet large enough to carry our dream to completion, but would like to find new friends and camp mates who share the idea that a beautiful garden on the playa would be enjoyed by many.
Please give me your thoughts...

alienfry · Post by **alienfry** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:19 am

best wishes. i'm putting my thinking cap on.

perhaps grow into your idea over a year or two or three and meanwhile use metal or plastic greenery.

metal is cool because you can incorporate fire in with it.

i visited an instalation in 2002 with a whole garden of fire-breathing flora. and there was also another installation with giant fire-breathing daffodills. i can't spell daffodills, and i don't know if those were the precise sort of flowers the statues were meant to be, but you get the idea.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:33 pm

As I believe was mentioned in previous threads, moop is going to be a big consideration here. I would reccomend keeping all plant life inside an enclosed structure to trap any debris that will enivitably fall off the plants. The structure will also help protect the living plants from the direct sunlight, (not to mention the high winds!) and if you incorporate some kind of misting system, you could probably keep the daytime temps down too. Sounds like a really interesting idea.

(Oh and how about getting several smaller domes together and connecting them with enclosed tunnels of some kind?)

themom · Post by **themom** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:27 pm

OK...If this does not interest anyone...maybe you could just give me ideas about a garden from 'who knows where'..perhaps OUT there somewhere...where they have plants with thumbs, or slugs, or band-aids as flowers???

themom · Post by **themom** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:02 pm

Had a thread named 'Moved' that I left to MAYFIELD.....wonder what happened to the thread AND Mayfielde? anyone know?

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:58 am

themom wrote:Had a thread named 'Moved' that I left to MAYFIELD.....wonder what happened to the thread AND Mayfielde? anyone know?

I dont know what happened to Mayfielde but I'm sure he's around.

glad to see you have'nt moved.

P-Mobius · Post by **P-Mobius** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:38 pm

hey keep in mind that the black rock desert is very hostile for plants
even desert adapted plants live away from the salt flat

but if you are really planning on bringing the botanical spirit of your lush coastal evergreen forest to bman--i recomend another tact--

take a huge ass bag of emerald triangle weed! thats the type of botanical camp which will really get other "burners" stoked.