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Both women, and their spouses, have targeted specialty careers, heavy with international travel. Heavy, for decades. Both women hired me with strong intent. A French garden. Not an American version of French gardens, French.
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Attention to detail inside their homes, not French inspired, French. Neither woman has hesitated to fill a container, while in France thru the years, and ship it home.
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At one of those gardens, before getting out of my service van at the first visit, I knew faux geometry would be used with major hedges, allees, axis. Ironic, much can be manipulated, but the property lines, and roads, cannot. Enter, faux geometry.
Pic, above, here.
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At the front end of faux geometry, especially if you've never heard of it, the concept feels 'wrong'. Faux geometry is not taught in school, nor have I heard it mentioned at any seminar/class/article. Faux geometry was learned, on-the-job. Once learned, it's a sense of magic.
Pic, above, here.
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Collateral to faux geometry is a lecture attended decades ago, Sir Roy Strong, and his wife, came to Atlanta. His garden, The Laskett, has since been bequeathed after he's gone, to live in perpetuity as a public garden. Of course you can guess my cat's name? Laskett. Even Laskett's new vet, moving rural 2 years ago, asked about Laskett's name. And the vet is from Scotland, educated in England.
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At that lecture, all these decades later, I still hear Sir Roy Strong say, "If you have an irregularly spaced area, put a geometric shape in it." Game changing sentence. Faux geometry I had to learn on my own.
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In the renderings, above/below, there are geometric garden rooms, within irregular spaces, and further, faux geometry within several of the geometric garden rooms. Staying with this? Got it?
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Garden Design with pixie dust. A pair of arrows for your quiver.
Pic, above, here.
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Once my pair of 'French' ladies have their gardens installed, I'll match-make them.
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Renderings, above, created by French garden designer, Dominique Lafourcade.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Not my job to tell you how to dig a planting hole, my job is telling you where. More, if you truly want to know how to design your garden, geometry and faux geometry are a pair of major keys to that realm.
