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 …
UK gardens
UK gardens
Constructing the walls
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 …
Space and Illusion
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-Mono2
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
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
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 …
Moorland Garden
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
‘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 …