Monday 30 May 2016

Union


The connection that exists between the garden and the surrounding landscape is a unique one. For many a city space this plays out as an opposing relationship where the garden is created as a way of shutting out the concrete world it is situated in but here in the countryside it is quite the opposite. When hills and trees loom ever present and in many places the only boundary is an old wire fence it's essential that the garden and landscape work together. My job as a gardener is not just to ensure the garden looks good but that it also sits right with the views outside of the cultivated borders and planted beds. Creating a balance between the tree life in a garden and the often much older and grander trees of the surrounding country so that the eye is carried seemingly seamlessly out to the horizon often far in the distance. To build a garden that not only fits in with the world around it but also exists in union with it.

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