Telling Time With Flowers
Visitors to a recent musical festival in Edinburgh admired the ingenuity of gardeners who had picked out in plants on a gigantic floral clock the names of many famous composers. For years this floral timepiece has been one of the attractions of the Scottish city. The mechanism of the clock is hidden beneath the flower-laden hands, which are attached to a central metal support. Thousands have wondered when they heard silvery chimes comes stealing up through the earth. Flowers also form the encircling numerals. Red, blue and gray are the colours usually employed. The clock keeps good time, and is at its loveliest in June.
Many summer visitors to Swansea recall another floral clock with cuckoo chimes. The enormous dial of an even more remarkable clock at Les Avants, near Montreux, consists of many tiny rock plants. It is worked by electricity, and shows the time in both Continental and English cities.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19471209.2.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 5, 9 December 1947, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
156Telling Time With Flowers Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 5, 9 December 1947, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in