Landscape features
The Eden landscape is strewn with unusual and unconventional horticulture which is both aesthically and technically interesting.
A plan of Eden
With various points of interest marked on the landscape
With various points of interest marked on the landscape
Colour patterns seen on domestic allotments have been scaled up to produce some unique effects.
Perhaps the most noticeable of these is the silver staircase on the western side of the pit, so called because, when lit up at night, it resembles a giant staircase running up the side of the landscape and ending at the majestic Cedar of Lebanon.
There is also the 'old school tie', which runs down the north-western side of the pit. Plants of differing shades of green have been planted at different heights along the landscape to produce the stripy effect of a school tie.
Dominic Cole of Land Use Consultants and his team took inspiration from many sources, but they cite the art of Paul Nash as a big influence.
