Happy Christmas to everyone!! I’m sorry to hear about the weather conditions that you are currently facing.
Now:
Gardens take time and care to develop properly, which is likely why most gardens today were passed on from generation to generation – we don’t kill live plants that grow despite our dislike unless, of course, it’s carrots!
Does this explain why our gardens appear so antiquated?
Recent discussions among garden lovers included talking about garden related things, with Gnomes playing an unexpected part. There’s often been the assumption that they are ironic figures; this misconception dates back to the 20th century.
As I was faced with this dated image and title for The Deckchair Gardener book cover, it left me disheartened (and still does!). Does anybody even remember what a deckchair is anymore?!
Most of our garden thoughts seem to exist within one time period; when Christopher Lloyd made casual reference to Sissinghurst during our discussion I realized we had entered an entirely different era.
What struck me as odd was how often we look backwards when designing gardens? Why do replicas of ancient Greek and Roman statues, stripped bare of their colorful details, appear in 21st-century gardens as seen in my earlier post?
