Sounds like my kind of garden! Old gardens where crumbling walls and derelict greenhouses are left to be swallowed up by nature are the most atmospheric ones to visit
Well put, Ben, but you know me and yes, I 'expect a garden to excite' me. Or rather, that's what I long for. It's rare.
And of course we should value old gardens, made by long dead people. But where are the brilliant and exciting (sorry!) contemporary gardens? (Oh, I know there are at least half a dozen that people like to praise. At least six.)
Sounds like my kind of garden! Old gardens where crumbling walls and derelict greenhouses are left to be swallowed up by nature are the most atmospheric ones to visit
Very much agree.
Well put, Ben, but you know me and yes, I 'expect a garden to excite' me. Or rather, that's what I long for. It's rare.
And of course we should value old gardens, made by long dead people. But where are the brilliant and exciting (sorry!) contemporary gardens? (Oh, I know there are at least half a dozen that people like to praise. At least six.)
Where indeed?
It’s like things dropped off after the 1920s.
Exactly.
Hey, I loved this piece for its elegiac voice talking about sense of place and about the nature of gardening as a practice and an art form.
Thank you very much.