Monday, January 21, 2008

Galaxy Garden

"The Galaxy Garden is a 100-foot diameter outdoor scale model of the Milky Way, mapped in living plants and flowers and based on current astrophysical data." It's in Kona, Hawaii. Lots of pictures at the site but here's one:

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"Stars, dust, and gas are all symbolized by various flowers. Stars are shown by the patterning on gold dust crotons and bromeliads, whose leaves are spattered with yellow dots, each leaf a starfield. Hibiscus flowers represent giant gas clouds called nebulae."

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