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….
These are high achievements for professional designers to aim towards….
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.
I have regular comments about the planting being the all important thing when my workload as a designer tells me it is not.
“Its misfortune, however, was to have been in the direct line of fire from the German bombers of World War II…”
Those of us who cannot go to Chelsea because of limited mobility rely on the BBC……
Here is Jay Sifford’s take on designing conceptual gardens.
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.
It’s based on values like sustainability, low maintenance, beauty, natural abstractions, habitat based, multi season performance, natural looking plants.
I find myself wondering if one of the things which distinguishes the New Perennial gardens from – err – others, is a lack of structures?
I wonder what will happen to our home and garden after we’re dead?
I was wondering who would be the ideal person to interview. Then I heard a podcast on garden art by the publicist, Hans von Trotha. Just perfect.