Since last week, when I first saw this garden, below, I've been thinking about how simply designed, within a framework of total design, by someone with a wisdom of Nature, time across historical perspective, aesthetics, grief, continents, the sky, tilt of the Earth, seasons, meals, human foot, cars, tractors, laughter, guests, owner/s, caretaker/s, solitude, children, galas, scent, sound, wheelbarrows, terra cotta, gravel, Tara Turf, human hands, mending of spirit, abiding, atonement. For starters.
Nothing major has been done, above, or every element is minutely chosen.
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Which camp are you in?
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My camp is organic design. Everything minutely chosen to look like nothing major has been done.
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Design to feed Nature, and Spirit.
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As Bunny Mellon designed, "Don't let it show."
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Can you guess which country this garden is in? Era? More signs of a good garden.
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We can visit this garden, and spend the night, it's in Provence, a B&B, Chateau Talaud.
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This, and more, on my Pinterest board.
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Organic design has no personal ego, yet total ego in belief. More than designing a place of abiding & atonement, it is a sacrament.
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Read a title, years ago, creating simplicity in organic design, "The Sacred and The Profane."
5 comments:
Tara, I've just stumbled across your blog and it really resonates with me. I love your rambling prose, rich in powerful words, which seems to reflect your gardening philosophy. We're just making a garden in Australia - I want it to be shady, organic, rambling, living according to its own nature with love and tending from us. Have you seen and read the work of Edna Walling? She designed beautiful gardens here in the first half of the 20thC and wrote about them with love. Thanks for blogging.
Ann
Looking at Google Map in Satellite view it is easy to see how the lanes and drives evolved along lot lines and by default.
I wondered if the tree lines were once fence rows, as some of ours are?
Jean you just described the BEST kind of organic design.
Too bad 'organic' has been hijacked to mean lack of chemicals....
Tara, beautiful. . . Have a wonderful 2015! - Cindy
I want to be there. Happy new year and best wishes Tara. Hope to meet you in person one day.
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