Garden Design Conservationist: The Ultimate Guide

At first sight, I understood these European gardens, below.  They spoke.

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The Ultimate Guide to becoming a Garden Design Conservationist is simple and short.

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The template never ceased in many countries.

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With plantings, below, at the curb, car toxins-lights-sounds are mitigated.  You get a bit more privacy, yet can see into the woodland across the road, without seeing cars.  In effect, owning your view, enlarging your garden.  Win/win.

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Lawn, behind the hedging, is a low meadow.  A mix of wildflowers, herbs, grasses, bulbs, what the wind blows in, Tara Turf.  Canopy trees, and understory trees at pockets.

Pic, above, here.

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Going into the garden, above, create your sacred environment within.  This painting, below, ca. 1912.

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Pic, above, here.

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Canopy trees, above, understory trees, tall shrubs, low shrubs, low meadow, seating, a small formation creating maximum pollinator habitat.  Choose to be in balance with your garden, it will gift you balance in your life.

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Pic, above, here.

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A new allee, above, and maximum pollinator habitat.  Add a bench/s, perhaps a narrow harvest table, above.  Perfect Garden Design Conservationist design, above, for a private home or the front of a subdivision.

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Pic, above, here.

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Versailles, above.  Wildwood, path, and formal fountain.  Sacred space, Man & Nature.  This isn't just for Versailles, it's for you.  Use native trees, no worries if you've space for only 2, and a large pot with water and simple jet of water.  Boom.  Versailles sacred space made to your custom needs, yet the flow, transcendence and filling of your spirit, immeasureable.

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Outside my office window, above, yesterday, late afternoon.  Sacred.

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Conservationist ideas in Garden Design are this easy.  Trees, Meadow, Natives.  This trinity doesn't need chemicals or fertilizers.

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Garden & Be Well,  XOT

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“If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.” — Marshall Goldsmith, Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts — Becoming the Person You Want to Be

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Gardening is a rare luxury of choice no matter the bank account.

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 Cal Newport explains in his book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World:

“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”

“Deep work” is work you do in a cultivated environment designed for flow. Deep work is purpose-driven. It’s not distracted. It doesn’t happen by accident."

Your garden, whether looking at it from inside your home, or outside within its embrace, shares flow and transcendence, if you choose to imbibe.

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” — Viktor Frankl

.“I’m pretty oblivious to a lot of things intentionally. I don’t want to be influenced that much.” — Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp

“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.” — Zig Ziglar

Choose for your garden, what you want for it, Earth and your soul.  Staying in the zone, the flow, seeking epiphany and transcendence, they're there for you, in your garden.  More places, but "I'm pretty oblivious to a lot of things intentionally''.

"What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?"  Pablo Neruda, tr. by William O'Daly.

Multiplied across generations and continents, we have derivative cultures with Nature Blindness for lack of creating healthy Garden Designs for Earth, self, soul, community.

If you're just beginning your Garden, go inside your home, and looking out the windows to site focal points, then go outside,  design and install in this order:

1. Trees

2. Meadow

3. Bushes

4. Focal Points (Pieces so wonderful they will be fought over at your estate sale.)

5. Groundcovers

Use as many natives as possible.  Use your County Extension Service for plant advice, they're providing best information, not trying to sell you anything.


Conservation Garden Design Equation (Use Natives/Neo-Natives or as many as possible):

Trees + Meadow + Bushes + Focal Points + Groundcovers = A Conservationist Garden Design

Conservation Garden Design Equation (Natives):

Trees + Meadow + Bushes + Focal Points + Groundcovers = A Conservation Garden Design