For girls colleges, a garden can be a beautiful expression of femininity with the colorful flowers that spring up on the campus grounds.
Planting flowers in a private girls’ school can be a visually appealing idea until the people in charge accidentally mess up the shape of the garden. Presbyterian Ladies’ College was forced to redesign a garden bed after they created an outdoor phallic-shaped garden.
The college was working on improvements to its Croydon campus and a penis-shaped garden didn’t feel like an upgrade in the eyes of women.
Paul Burgis, the headmaster of the school, said he didn’t catch onto the unique shape during the design process but a former student reached out to him after drone footage captured a full aerial view.
The garden was designed by an independent architecture company and the architects didn’t second-guess their design for an all-girls environment. “The garden is part of a range of architect-driven updates to parts of the school. After they designed the garden the architects requested the inclusion of some chairs,” Burgis said.
“As part of recording the updates we sent a drone up to take pictures. At a certain angle from up high, the garden with its room for chairs took on a phallic shape which was unintended and unexpected. As a result, the architects made some alterations which were completed within 72 hours of the drone pictures.”
A former student explained that the shape of the garden was obviously rude. “It was unmistakably shaped like a penis and testicles,” she said. “The immediate response was laughter: ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Photos have been circulating among the school as memes, saying ‘oh good morning’ and various kinds of jokes.”
For the ladies busy hitting the books and miss the presence of men on campus, the photos might be a treat for the eyes.