The Nest

Creative thinking, recycling, scrounging for materials, looking through books for ideas… it can add up to wondrous creations. After seeing a hut built like a nest in a book, Roger Boddaert who is installing my permascape garden pulled together a lot of scraps and came up with my own nest. He and his team worked magic.

Three palm trees that had been, well, decapitated, then stripped of their calyxes, became the main pillars for the structure.

Old wire that was left over from old gardening trellises and even from the previous owner was wrapped around more palm trunks moved over for the framing.

Wood from the sheds that had been destroyed was used for a window and doorways. Then grape vine cuttings that Roger’s neighbor had left over from his vineyard were bundled up and tied onto the wire frame with wire.