Knitted leaves in Phoenix Park

Bruncvik

This may be a long shot, as I didn't find anything on Google or here, but anyone knows the story behind the knitted leaves on trees in Phoenix Park? I found one such tree towards the west end of the park:

I'd appreciate any info I could get.

spurious

How interesting. I did a bit of a google and like you didn't find anything specific about the Phoenix Park, but I found photos of examples in other parts of the world.

Maybe it's a movement to 'green' a few trees in the winter months. I must say if I had come across them they would have made me smile, so they can't be bad.

Alias G

Fairy tree??

bladebrew

This is something known as guerilla knitting or yarnbombing, its basically knitting things then leaving them in public as far as i can tell, i read an article about it before, seems bonkers but i like it:)

http://knitthecity.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing

edit: spurious basically answered the question, it is a street art

fonzy157

Bruncvik wrote: »

This may be a long shot, as I didn't find anything on Google or here, but anyone knows the story behind the knitted leaves on trees in Phoenix Park? I found one such tree towards the west end of the park:

I'd appreciate any info I could get.

Pretty cool!
Where in Phoenix park did you find it?

Bruncvik

bladebrew wrote: »

This is something known as guerilla knitting or yarnbombing, its basically knitting things then leaving them in public as far as i can tell, i read an article about it before, seems bonkers but i like it

Many thanks! I like it as well, just wanted to know more about it. I'll try to find more

fonzy157: On the extreme west end of the big lawn, close to the Duck Pond. A lonely tree in the grass.

fonzy157

Thanks- plan to go and check it out!

Cookie_Monster

Reminds me of the "christmas" tree on the Sally Gap road just up from the Glenmacnas Waterfall, a random conifer that got covered in decorations and tinsel for years.

OldGoat

I went to take some photos of the tree last night and failed to find it. Is it still there and I went to the wrong place or have the knitted leaves been taken down?
I thought it was along the Upper Glen road. Was it visible from the road?

Bruncvik

Sorry; the Duck Pond remark may have been a little misleading. I checked my pictures from that day, and it was the first shot I took after the pond, so I thought it was closer than it really was. Here's the rough area where I found it - a standalone tree, slightly off the forested areas: