Monty Don wrote, The Prickotty Bush, years ago. Each January I reread it.
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Garden writing as literature by someone passionate about doing his own gardening. He's done a little TV too. Enjoy.
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Teza's Garden, has more YouTube of Monty Don, and you'll like the blog.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Amazon has 3 copies of The Prickotty Bush, today, all used, at 50, 72, 92 POUNDS. Not dollars dahlings.
The art? I've learned it's something to be nurtured & honored. 
Speed walking 5miles, 3-5x's/week, at Stone Mountain, GA, feeds my muse. Doing my best thinking while sweating.
Being in nature to feed the left brain/right brain thing.
A potager? Perennial border? Choosing paint colors for a house & patio furnishings? Nature, consistently enriching my creative muse.
Understanding forms, patterns, silhouettes, plant drifts? Color? Nature has it all, and more.
How a body relates in scale to its surroundings?
Creating enfilades thru paths, rectangular stone terraces edged with brick, over a fountain, between pairs of boxwood, caressed by flowering shrub borders sprinkled with a few tough perennials, and finally landing the eye/foot on a bench. Nature? Hardly.
yet nothing was left to chance. 
What I like most, above? Remove flowers & pumpkins, and the design holds together. 
Please tell me you don't have white pvc pipes sticking up from your roof.
and have it evoke in picaresque who you are? Splendiferous you.
One glance, I knew. First, stain patio furnishings a shade from inside.
More important, paths. PATH GIRL created a beautiful garden but the paths weren't 'done'. A roundabout, below, radiates paths.
Gravel to the rescue. PATH GIRL shoveled her own. Edging garden beds with stone found on-site & fallen tree limbs. Not quite finished yet. Yes, dearies, part of the design, use what's at hand. 
An alcove of path with an antique marble bench &, while sitting on the bench, a pineapple, symbol of welcome, at your feet.
And the pre-built potting shed, Magnolia Hall, is steeped in gravel too.
Up to its side, adding a new sitting area.
Many weeks of shoveling then an invitation to lunch.
In the dining room a 2nd, smaller, table for games, reading or dining with a view.
Vanishing Threshold views, above & below.
NOTES & RESOURCES:
At first glance I thought it was an 'illumination' by Childe Hassam.
Sitting in the bench, above, you'll see the house, below, a double axis.
Sitting in the bench, and looking right,
you'll see this axis, above. 
Rather a lot, above. Sometimes it's a single pot, but wow, in that single pot is something Of-The-Moment-Fabulous.
you must be able to sit in the bench
and see another focal point. Double Axis.
And I want to know the story!
