I Hate Designing Gardens by Suzanne Albinson
by Suzanne Albinson.
“the client went to a local nursery and purchased a job lot of trees on sale and stuck them in all over the place and completely shot the design…”
The Gardening Animal: The Biology of its Behaviour
by Yolanda Elizabet Heuzen.
“….Gardening is mainly about pleasing our inner animal, catering to our body, our senses.”
Miscellany
by Steve Eddy, Brian Sewell and Anthony Quinn.
“I fell to wondering, yet again, at the vanity of painters incapable of even rudimenatary self-criticism and at the boundless conceit of amateurs.”
Hedonistic Gardens – A Return to Utopia
18th Century pleasure gardens by Malcolm Uhlhorn.
“as we emerge from this treacle pudding of a recession should we not be trying to shake off this national endemic of philistinism and austerity and be thinking as to how we could embrace the pleasure garden concept today?”
Feeling Gardens
by Amanda Patton.
“…art isn’t just visually appealing, it must move you, shock you, create emotion in you in some form. And so with gardens, they must move you on a deeper level than just being visually pleasing.”
The Garden and the Brain
by Jenny Woods.
“It is this reaction that Amanda Patton is trying to manipulate when she is designing the ‘feel-bad’ gardens she discusses in her article…”
Garden design in Japan and China
by Yue Zhuang.
“The Japanese have an extraordinary tradition of studying and assimilating the good from other cultures…”
An Art Project in Deal
by Christine Finn.
“Leave-Home-Stay began as a whole house excavation, conducted when I returned to the home I had known for 35 years after the deaths of both of my parents…..”
Ursula Buchan on Aspects of Garden Design
Cutting edge is what most people do with a pair of grass shears, not a design aspiration.
“Sure, everyone enjoys the show gardens at Chelsea Flower Show every year, but few people, it would appear, have the faintest desire to emulate what they see….”
So why do we have so many ugly gardens?
by Anne Wareham.
“This bed appears to have no purpose other than to contain the multitude of random materials….” – Jenny Woods
Are Garden Photographs Art? by Charles Hawes
by Charles Hawes.
“I wonder what Martin Parr would come up with if he were to photograph gardens. Whatever it would be, you can bet your life he would not produce work that would sit comfortably in the pages of contemporary garden magazines.”
Little Sparta by Tim Richardson
by Tim Richardson.
“….we are reminded of Finlay’s dictum: “Embark on a garden with a vision but never with a plan….”
Sara Maitland on Reviews of Dan Pearson’s garden at The Maggie Centre
Sara Maitland discusses the comments on Bridget Rosewell’s review of Dan Pearsons’ garden at The Maggie Centre, Charing Cross, London.
Should we trust anyone’s opinion on a garden except our own?
by Tim Richardson.
“Beth Chatto’s garden was never going to be ‘my thing’, exactly, but I found it all rather underwhelming….”
Considerations for garden visitors by Anne Wareham
by Anne Wareham.
“Try some adjectives: – risk taking, banal, complacent, incomprehensible, exciting, disturbing? – to help you focus on just what you feel about it.”
With responses from Mike Gerrard, Antony Woodward, Tim Richardson, Jenny Woods, Clive Nichols, Chris Young, Yue Zhuang and Rebecca Wells.
