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Friday, 29 March 2013

Tropical garden landscape transforms upmarket shopping center

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Above: The Koi ponds at Bal Harbour, Miami, Florida. Photo: Flickr.

 

On a recent trip to Miami, I looked at different forms of climate gardening. Going from middle-of-winter in England to shorts and sandals in sunny Florida, a last minute decision led to lunch in the Bal Harbour shopping center. Along with the usual designer fashion shops and cafes was a fabulously tropical garden landscape with turles, koi fish, fountains and lush planting. We recently completed a water garden designed to house a client's koi fish collection [see post on Koi water garden] and this indoor setting really caught my imagination, inspiring ideas for a future project. If only London had the same climate as Florida! It was a shock coming back to the delayed Spring.

 

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Above: A turtle considers taking the plunge into one of the koi ponds at Bal Harbour. Photo: Flickr.

 

 

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Above: Inside the Bal Harbour shopping center in Miami, Florida. Photo: www.lucianasaliani.com

 

 

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The fish appeared to have wonderful, almost human facial expressions!

 

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Koi Ponds at Bal Harbour. Photo: Claudia de Yong.

 

 

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Koi Ponds at Bal Harbour. Photo: Claudia de Yong.

 

Read more about Koi Ponds and water gardens:

Award-winning Garden Landscape Design for Koi fish pond catches the imagination

 

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