IT MIGHT look like the latest modern art installation, but Mother Nature designed this all by herself.
The bizarre sight greeted horticulturist Rona Ashworth after gale force winds wrecked a polytunnel at her nursery.
Mrs Ashworth, of Mount Pleasant Plants, Leavening, near Malton, put up the protective covering over herbaceous plants less than a week ago.
But the weather had other plans and created a sculpture many modern artists would envy.
Mrs Ashworth said: "My neighbour came round to tell me and when I first saw it, I must admit I laughed.
"It was like a modern sculpture with the sun glinting through it.
"It really did look a bit freakish."
Mrs Ashworth said the strong winds totally devastated the protective covering, which had stood about half the height of a normal walk-in polytunnel.
She said: "The wind was so strong that it blew some of the aluminium hoops out of the framework and bent them double."
But green-fingered Mrs Ashworth says she has hit upon an idea to outsmart any more wild weather heading her way.
She said: "What I shall do now is not use a polythene tunnel, but instead just put in a netting one so the plants are protected from the elements and the wind can go through the holes."
Updated: 11:33 Monday, February 25, 2002
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