Planting 2022
I start to plant a garden. The summer of 2022 was not the best of times for planting. In June the moor was beleaguered by a cold desiccating east wind …
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I start to plant a garden. The summer of 2022 was not the best of times for planting. In June the moor was beleaguered by a cold desiccating east wind …
To be true to the location walls should be drystone. The Yorkshire Dales National Park alone has 8000Km of drystone wall. Road and field boundaries across the north of England …
If I were to have one book about Japanese Gardens it would be the first one I bought almost 40 years ago. “Space and Illusion“by Teiji Itoh is a book …
Mitate-Mono 2 As well as looking through Architectural antiques yards for decorative objects I have also been on the search for materials for hard landscape- for walls, stepping stones and …
Mitate Mono1 In this blog I will return again and again to what we refer to in the West as aesthetics. Just as in Japanese it is difficult to translate …
Developing a Narrative Every aspect of gardening is a form of deception. With plants. paths, stone and water the gardener contrives to tell a story of time and space in …
The nature of my site. I always assumed that the “right plant – right place” philosophy work to a point. If money is no object rare tropical orchids can be …
‘A Move’ by Martin Owen Mono no aware, 物の哀れ – an acceptance of impermanence and that things change is an important tenet in Japanese aesthetics. To accept and letting go …