under lock and key

The Pines Calyx garden and the Charlton Centre car park have one thing in common in that they are both surrounded by metal.  In the case of the car park, this is in the form of the red metal rails and pillars; and for the garden it is in the form of a fence that surrounds the Pines Calyx grounds.  Like the car park the garden is only open at certain times, and supposedly only open to paying visitors.

The garden grounds have some gateways around the perimeter that are permanently locked and these, of course, shut the garden off to local residents and passing walkers-by through their implied “You Are Not Welcome Here” message.

For the Paradise Revealed show, we hope that it may be possible to persuade the garden to open these gates as a welcome to inquisitive visitors.  If we succeed, it will be interesting to see whether the gates remain open or whether the garden returns to its enclosed status.