Saturday, September 4, 2010

Double Axis

Looking along a path, below, in one direction. Looking along the same path, below, in its opposite direction.
DOUBLE AXIS. (Same garden as yesterday's post.)
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Double Axis, my landscape design invention (la-ti-da). I noticed the best gardens have beautiful axis, and when you turn around they are beautiful along the opposite axis, DOUBLE AXIS.
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So, dear poppets, it's not merely good enough to have a beautiful view. You must have a beautiful view in 2 directions along the same line.
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Of course you can throw a roundabout into your Double Axis and create a Double Double Axis. Life is good when these are your musings.

7 comments:

Desert Dweller said...

Your "double axis" is even nicer since one is to a sunny view, the other to a shady woodland = assymetrical balance. Still balance.

Speaking of sunny & shady...better get on my hike!

Jeanne Henriques said...

I love stopping in here Tara...I always learn something new! Wish I had a 'double axis'!!

Jeanne :)

The House That A-M Built said...

Now that is a mighty fine garden, double axis and all! A-M xx

the gardener's cottage said...

hi tara,

now i get it! coming and going must be pretty. i'll work on that this fall.

~janet

Saypoint said...

Nice blog, but your definition of double axis is incorrect. A double axis is a design in which two separate sightlines cross at a 90 degree angle. Your examples are single axis, not double. In a double axis, one axis is usually dominant, being contructed with more important elements, and the other is subordinate, being simpler in design. Example: a lawn with formal borders crossed at some point by a grass path leading off at the sides. Or a paved element crossed by unpaved or paved with less formal materials.

Tara Dillard said...

Saypoint, You are so right !! But that is not my invention. Tara's Double Axis is a beautiful view in both directions along a single line. And I choose to call it Double Axis.

And I don't care if the view is the underside of a deck or an air-conditioner at one end. It must be made beautiful. Double Axis !!

XO T

Linda@ Lime in the Coconut said...

Hmmm...Mden path is a tad over-ruy garn by lime green sweet potatoes. Time to get out the machete again!