In the Serpent Garden, a topiary snake entices you past a series of sculptures, in which water flows over polished stainless steel and creates a canyon through which you can try to squeeze without getting wet.
There is also a mushroom-shaped structure on which surface tension and viscosity overcome gravity. The display culminates in the Torricelli [...]
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The Serpent Garden
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2016
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PhotoHunt – Circular
Vortex…
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14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 14th 2012
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Alnwick Garden – Last Glimpse
Before we move on, I share a last few pictures of the Serpent Garden.
11 Comments CherryPie on Jul 22nd 2011
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Alnwick Garden – Torricelli
Torricelli is another water feature in the Serpent Garden. The water slowly creeps up the tubes and eventually bursts out in a cascade of fountains which slowly diminish. Kids are fascinated by this one and love to explore the feature first hand
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2011
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Alnwick Garden – The Serpent Garden
The garden is named the serpent garden due to the topiary that snakes it’s way through this garden feature:
A topiary serpent in holly snakes through the watery Serpent Garden, revealing a different water sculpture hidden in each of its coils.
The water sculptures have been created by William Pye, one of the world’s leading [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2011
