![Tokyos-potted-plants-1](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tokyos-potted-plants-1.jpg?w=1000)
サイモン・パリッシュというイギリスのアーチストから、東京の植木鉢の庭の絵をいただきました。二十年前に東京に住んでいたそうですが、今でも東京の感じをよく覚えているんですね。
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from English artist Simon Parish, who shared with me (and my readers) his drawings of Tokyo potted plant gardens. I love his compositions, the contrast between the line drawings and the (hand-colored?) plants and pots, the mix of cultivated and semi-wild urban vegetation.
Simon explained that he lived in Tokyo about 20 years ago. I am super impressed with his current art work, and feels it evokes the types of Tokyo city gardens that this blog celebrates. Maybe, garden-wise, Tokyo does not change so much over the decades or even centuries.
![Tokyos-potted-plants-2](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tokyos-potted-plants-2.jpg?w=1000)
![Tokyos-potted-plants-3](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tokyos-potted-plants-3.jpg?w=1000)
![Tokyos-potted-plants-4](https://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tokyos-potted-plants-4.jpg?w=1000)
I love the utility wires that Simon includes. They seem so prominent in so many pictures of Tokyo.
Fantastic drawings. Thank you for posting them!
I was so happy to receive them. I like how the artist still vividly remembers Tokyo twenty years after leaving.