Collecting / List-Making / Sorting / Reconfiguring
Tagetes Erecta / African Marigold (Mexico)
Zinnia Peruviana / Peruvian Zinnia (Southern America / Southern-North America)*
Echinacea / Coneflower (Easter North America)
Cosmos Bipinnatus / Garden Cosmos (Mexico)
I counted 11 species of plants in the fountain’s flowerbeds including the 4 above. Reconfigured in a precise and orderly fashion, the possibility of using the site’s flowers as a mean’s of data visualisation, as well as the site’s inherent tensions come to the forefront. Interestingly, none of the flowers counted are native to the UK providing a potential thematic framework within which to understand this cordoned-off space (in the context of multi-cultural London and British Empire).
A further list includes:
Cuphea Hyssopifolia / False Heather (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala).
Heuchera Micrantha / Crevice Alumroot (Western US).
Pennisetum Glaucum / Pearl Millet (North-Central Sahel, West Africa).
Gaura Lindheimeri / Lindheiemer’s Beeblossom (Southern US – LA, TX).
Salvia Microphylla / Baby Sage (Southern US, Mexico).
Helleborus Niger / Christmas Rose (Central & Southern Europe, Western Asia).
Lavandula Angustifolia / English Lavender (Mediterranean Europe).
Pennisetum alopecuroides / Chinese Foutaingrass (Eastern Asia, Australia)
*Zinnia have also been grown in space.