TIMBER from a cellar has been turned into fronds for a four-metre high sculptured fern unveiled at Albury’s botanic gardens on Friday.
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The Fern, which faces the Wodonga Place and Smollett Street roundabout near the Albury Sportsground, is the work of Michael Laubli.
“The whole concept was born out of a childhood memory and the ferns of Nail Can Hill,” he said.
“They’re aesthetically really beautiful and I wanted to share that with as many people as I could.”
The $6600 project used jarrah-stained ash from the demolished Fallon’s wine cellar that was located in Kiewa Street, Albury.
The timber is attached to a curving metal spine produced by Larsen Engineering of Baranduda.
Councillor Alice Glachan said the fern would be a focal point for visitors entering the city and complemented sculpted crimson spider orchids on Atkins Street near the railway station.
New main gates to the gardens will be installed by the end of August and a treehouse in the children’s garden is to open next month.
