Dear reader, I am a gardener. I make gardens for residential clients not landscapes. I expect some interaction between the client and the garden. Many, many people tell me they don’t want to spend time in their gardens for maintenance. So, let me explain something to you: the first thing to consider when you make...
Author: gardenstudio
Ambience Concealed
I would like to draw your attention dear reader to pieces of music which have attracted me recently. They are sometimes electronic, evocative, at times mournful but beautiful. See if you agree. They include (found on YouTube), ‘Says’ by Nils Frahn, ‘November’ by Max Richter, ‘Only the Winds’ by Olafur Arnalds, ‘Struggle for Pleasure’ by...
Garden Mystery
Dear reader, have you been fortunate to have children to see them grow, to see them leave home and find their way in life? Looking back, did that take long? With the final third of your lives to follow. Life is so brief, and we are such specks in space that the consideration of eternity...
Garden as Sustainable Machine
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Landscape and Cinema
The sound of rain on pavement, breeze lifting muslin drapes and disarranging curls of hair, birds calling in the morning sun, cicadas en masse in the heat of the day, avenues...
Marrakech Express
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Concept Gardens
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Bach, Beethoven and Composing Landscape
Only recently have I found a new Bach piece, BWV 140¹, a cantata, which renews my admiration for his inventiveness. Childlike, it begins with a divisive cantus firmus which...
An Australian Garden?
Art from the Warlayirti community of Balgo Hills WA was until recently hung in the corridor between the main body of the Art Gallery of South Australia and its restaurant/café...
Garden as Biography
Here we address issues in a theatrical format which respond to your life narrative – passions, childhood, cultural background, sufferings, travel experiences. An antidote for a troubling past or a vehicle for optimism!