Can professional designers really hope to emulate those for whom a garden is a life’s work?
These are high achievements for professional designers to aim towards….
Now ranting!
Garden Rant has definitely got exciting, outspoken and thoughtful writers. It has just had a major website revamp and has also invited two new contributors: me and Dan Hinkley.
Lawrence Halprin’s Heritage Plaza: A Crying Shame by Susan Cohan
“Despite my swagger, I’m a softy. I well up in tears when I am moved by something–not usually landscapes or gardens.
A Chelsea garden in Monmouthshire reviewed by Patterson Webster and Anne Wareham
This is another re-issue, to remind me of a happy day with a great friend. We will meet our friends again one day – we will. Editor, Anne Wareham….
Any Questions by Andrew Wilson
I have regular comments about the planting being the all important thing when my workload as a designer tells me it is not.
Bring Me Stories, Bring Me Songs, by Caleb Melchior
This is effectively the third post about Conceptual gardens. Or at least, about concepts and gardens. Does it take us forward? Anne Wareham, editor…
My First Garden by Valerie Lapthorne
“Its misfortune, however, was to have been in the direct line of fire from the German bombers of World War II…”
All that business? by Bella D’Arcy Reed
Those of us who cannot go to Chelsea because of limited mobility rely on the BBC……
Designing a Conceptual Garden by Jay Sifford
Here is Jay Sifford’s take on designing conceptual gardens.
What goes? by Anne Wareham
So – would anyone take over thinkingardens if I gave it up? Volunteer for it, anyone? It could possibly be made to pay under a different, energetic and more err.. positive? editor? Shall I stop, anyway? I think this is most likely.
An Economic History of the English Garden by Roderick Floud, reviewed by Bridget Rosewell.
Floud sets out the history of the garden industry. He is interested in the how and the who, and how much it all cost.
New Perennials and Structure, Facebook Discussion 2.
It’s based on values like sustainability, low maintenance, beauty, natural abstractions, habitat based, multi season performance, natural looking plants.
New Perennials and Structure
I find myself wondering if one of the things which distinguishes the New Perennial gardens from – err – others, is a lack of structures?
Afterwards by Anne Wareham
I wonder what will happen to our home and garden after we’re dead?
Garden Opening : we think.
People’s thoughts, motivations and experiences in relation to opening their gardens
