My balcony currently has no plants on it but I have a vision of a small green jewel that I can look out on, sit on, smell bee-loving plants on and generally enjoy in any spare moment I happen to have.
With this end in mind I contacted various people listed by the Society of Garden Designers but as I don't have 200 acres for landscaping they wouldn't help. So I called in on spec to the local flower shop and asked if they knew anyone as I have no clue as to how to convert my empty open-fronted box into a green jewel. John turned up and suggested trellising and various types of evergreen vines. With this idea, and thanks to ready access to the web, I started to investigate.
That same day I read the following: "Imagining today minus the Net is as content-free an exercise as imagining London in the 1840s with no steam power, New York in the 1930s with no elevators, or L.A. in the 1970s with no cars. After a while, the trellis so shapes the vine that you can't separate the two." Clay Shirky, who studies the Internet.
This made me think. Here I am able to find potential balcony vine and trellis info, do rapid research, buy stuff for more or less immediate delivery – my behaviour is being shaped by the structure of the internet.
