{"id":770,"date":"2010-05-08T04:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-05-08T04:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T04:27:49","slug":"play-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/play-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Trees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.org\/images\/image\/treefurniture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have heard of training apple trees against walls to make beautiful patterns but I had never heard of this sort of tree manipulation until now.\u00a0 Check out this plan for a living playground made from living trees!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s fairly common to tie young trees into knots and such to make interesting shapes years later.\u00a0 One man dedicated much of his life to making all sorts of fantastic tree furniture and sculptures and there&#8217;s even an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilroygardens.org\/\">amusement park<\/a> full of his trees that he started out in California.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arborsmith.com\/images\/axel-erlandson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"715\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"www.physorg.com\/news138541462.html\">researchers<\/a> from Tel Aviv University and the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantware.org\/\">Plantware<\/a> are partnering up to grow structures from trees on a commercial scale \u2013\u00a0 including bus shelters, playgrounds, and even houses.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds so whimsical and fun, but like it would requires SO much patience!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more and see lots of links with other examples, click <a href=\"http:\/\/homebuilding.thefuntimesguide.com\/2008\/02\/arborsculpture_tree_shaping.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking we&#8217;ll have to take a look at some of the little lilac and maple volunteers in the back yard and see if we can make them a little more interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard of training apple trees against walls to make beautiful patterns but I had never heard of this sort of tree manipulation until now.\u00a0 Check out this plan for a living playground made from living trees! Apparently it&#8217;s fairly common to tie young trees into knots and such to make interesting shapes years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[150,182,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}