1、Financial Report 2002abThe Concept:GardensWe have chosen a number of distinct gardens from around theworld as the pictorial theme for our annual reporting products thisyear.Gardens are the product of imagination,expertise and carefulattention to detail.Celebrated gardens evolve from inspired ideasth
2、at are developed with consistent and relentless dedication overyears and even generations.Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro Park(Gifu,Japan)Located in a section of Yoro Park,the Site of Reversible Destiny,whichopened in 1995,is an innovative park and architectural“intervention”conceived by artists Shu
3、saku Arakawa and Madeline Gins.Their intentionwas to illustrate the concept of deconstruction by using the traditional ideaof a garden as a labyrinth for a series of physical meetings.Visitors are givendirections for use when entering most of which are rather original andunconventional.The sites bas
4、ic structure is a large oval basin with variousarchipelagos of different sizes overlapped by pairs of hemispherical cratersand mounds linked by a number of maze-like winding paths.La Geria(Lanzarote,Canary Islands,Spain)La Geria,known as the“wine road”of Lanzarote,passes through the moun-tains of Ch
5、upaderos and Guadilama.It is directly bordered by lava fieldsand vineyards,a unique feature of the overall landscape.The grapes,whichproduce Malvasia wine,grow on vines that are protected from winds bysmall curving walls.Barnsley House Garden(Cirencester,Gloucestershire,UK)Designed in the early 1950
6、s by Rosemary Verey(OBE),a leading exponent ofthe classic English Arts and Crafts country garden style,Barnsley HouseGarden is a four and a half acre garden bounded on three sides by a high 18thcentury wall which divides the garden into different areas of interest.Setaround Vereys 17thcentury home,t