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This garden, below, perfection. At the front end of my career, I would not have understood this garden. Pure architecture. More than a backhand down the line winner, it is taking the net for an overhead smash, and better than catching your opponent wrong footed, your ball hits them in the solar plexus, knocking the air out of them, they fall backward on their rear, struggling for breath. You've won the point. Yes, this garden, below, feels that good.
Pic, above, here.
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However, that's not where I'm going, how-wonderful-it-is, with this garden, above. Instead, a practice garden design for you. Mentally remove your entire landscape. Next, with the garden design style, above, use only this style design to plan your new landscape. Do not worry about specific plants, put in the shapes.
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Take it a step further, doodle it on paper, with your house & property line drawn. Go. Have fun.
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Garden & Be Well, XOT
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Yes, I was a competitive tennis player, won district singles 4A twice, then skipped my senior year of high school to go to college. Never played tennis again. Oddly, I was never a good tennis player, merely competitive. Yes, I made tennis a contact sport, story above is true. Gladly, left behind 'competitive'. Ironically, it's what I love greatly about gardens, there is already a winner, Nature. She lets me play, by her rules, and happy for my winning, by her rules. Teamwork.
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Beloved has commented more than once about how I walk. It's plain, streamlined, calm, the exact walk perfected on tennis courts across Texas, the same walk I used to turn away from a gagging girl, before she got up, 'walking' to the baseline, as if zero had happened, I have a tournament to win, don't slow me down.
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Why not play tennis? Could never do social tennis, only what I knew. Love watching Serena Williams play tennis. Whoa, curtsy to the queen !
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Garden, above, designed by Quincy Hammond.
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