He then created a three-dimensional print of the vinelike results and had it cast in bronze, joining ancient techniques with new ones in a curious and captivating object.
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During our visit, behind workshops producing coffee sets, Christmas baubles and jugs, the London-based artist Sissi had taken over a back room to piece together a vast, vinelike wall work.
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Along with the delphinium garden, there are, among others, an early-summer rose garden (now mostly deadheads, the few remaining flowers ragged and wind-stripped); a Piet Oudolf-designed border of grasses in various shades of yellow and gold; a centuries-old wall against which trees bearing fat, vaguely erotic, doughnut-shaped nectarines have been trained to climb, vinelike; a plot of tangled, prickly gooseberry bushes; a canopy of sweet-smelling linden — an organized patchwork of different styles and species.
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Species of Muehlenbeckia vary considerably in their growth habits; they may be perennials, vinelike, or shrubs. All have rhizomatous roots. Their leaves are arranged alternately on the stem, usually with stalks (petioles), but sometimes stalkless (sessile). The brownish ocrea is short and tubular, soon disintegrating.
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Antirrhinum nuttallianum is an annual or biennial herb producing an erect, vinelike stem which sometimes clings to objects for support, but does not twine as tightly as many other snapdragons. The flowers are veined light purple with white patches and around a centimeter long. Each is borne on a short pedicel.
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This multi-headed nāga is part of a decorative lintel from the end of the 9th century. Nāgas are frequently depicted in Angkorian lintels. The composition of such lintels characteristically consists in a dominant image at the center of a rectangle, from which issue swirling elements that reach to the far ends of the rectangle. These swirling elements may take shape as either vinelike vegetation or as the bodies of nāgas.
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Among rattans they are relatively delicate and vinelike, very spiny and densely clustering, stems eventually becoming bare and covered in leaf scars. The leaves, rachises, and petioles (when present) may be equipped with simple climbing adaptations like barbs, cirrus, and grapnel spines but the climbing habit mostly relies on stem spines, and their leaning, sprawling nature. With the most reduced inflorescence in the Calaminae, the large panicle remains enclosed within a tough, woody, occasionally armed bract. Nearing antithesis the beaked end develops splits, exposing the flowers; the bract usually remains persistent, later developing another longitudinal split in fruit, or rarely falling away.
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