In Your Garden: Focal Point Ideas

 "Coleridge searched for a unified view of reality that was at once bodily and spiritual."  Sam Dresser.

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Go past the 'sign', below.  A story written, without words, in the siting of the benches.

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Too often, driving by, benches face traffic.  And, the bench is the sole focal point in the garden. 

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The ambit, below, is double direction.  A delight seeing outwardly facing benches, backing up to a beautiful mini-garden.  A rarity, especially in residential Garden Design.

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Copy.  Never concern yourself with copying good Garden Design.  It can never be unoriginal.  Never.  Each site unique.  Your iteration, is your own to bestow, brand new.

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'Inspiration, imagination and contemplation' are in your garden.  Unseen, yet surely manifest once you choose to partake.

  

Pic, above, here. 

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"It's only when we're self-consciously aware of ideas that we're fully awake."  Coleridge.

 

Pic, above, here.  

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The mundane, above, raised to art.  Plumbing pipes !  Form & Function.  

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"Culture, tradition & spiritual well being" is spoken in these gardens.  Seen, felt, copied, without a consideration for labels.  None needed, their use, seen, felt, lived.  How is it, we can each sit in this garden chair, above.  It is my belief we are hardwired for a garden.  No matter anyone's belief about gardens, we are each from a garden, with garden components, fungi, bacteria, etc.

 

Pic, above, here.

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Just-let-it-touch, above.  It's the rare focal point, not improved with foliage touching.  Seems she's also on a plinth, above.  Need a certain height?  Place your focal point on a plinth....  Keep this fact in your quiver when perusing for your Garden.

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If you only knew, your Garden speaks your life.

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In the macro, our gardens foreshadow our decline.  What we've gained in simplicity of care is a complexity of loss.  From the foresaking of transcendence, to global loss of habitat.

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Focal points are part of good Garden Design.  The Garden Design tradition planted in "the spiritual and  transcendent against those.....of the material and immanent only".

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In the garden, both are lit, body and spirit.  Whether you think so or not.  

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Garden & Be Well,   XO T