Global Garden Shovel
(COMMISSIONED BY SOUND TRANSIT)Cast Bronze, Patina
420″(35 ft.) 90″(7.50 ft ) x 12″
2009
(Martin Luther King Way and Alaska St., Seattle, WA)
Global Garden Shovel plant list:
Shovel Front
- Cacao Tree tropical region of the Americas
- Umbrella Tree China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia
- Milkweed North America
- Bamboo Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, South Pacific
- Pineapple Southern Brazil, Paraguay
- Bell Pepper Mexico, Central America, South America
- Philodendron Southern Mexico, Central America
- Sunflower Eastern United States, Southeastern Canada
- Cabbage Coastal Southern and Western Europe
- Banana Tropical East Asia
- Tamarind Tree Tropical Africa (adopted into India)
- Palm Mexico
- Bird of Paradise South Africa
- Iris Europe, Middle East, Northern Africa, Asia, North America
- Rafflesia Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Southern Thailand, Borneo, Southern Philippines
- Chanterelle mushroom Northern Europe, North America, Mexico, Asia, Africa
- Apple Tree Central Asia/Kazakhstan (cultivated worldwide)
- Taro Southeast Asia
Shovel back
- Pear China, Middle East
- Papaya
- Philodendron Southern Mexico, Central America
- Corn Mexico, North and South America
- Palm Mexico
- Amorphophallus titanium Western Sumatra
- Heleconia Tropical Americas, Pacific Ocean, Asia
- Sea Grape Coastal Tropical Caribbean, Coastal tropical America
- Sausage Tree Tropical Africa
- Milkweed North America





