Not many gardens much under a hectare or two seems to have made the cut (except for a vertical garden created in London by long finger-nailed French genius, Patrick Le Blanc.) It’s an impressive and highly readable coffee-table book, primarily focused on palatial estate gardens with statuary to burn. This past winter, I read The New English Garden by eminent Brit garden journalist/writer Tim Richardson. 2 Think big in small spaces.Īllow me to explode a few myths out there in the ether. I’ve just learned that seminal American garden writer, Rick Darke, amongst others, talks about the landscape as palimpsest. The thousand-fold reality of the garden universe – rolled up like a manuscript inside the mind. All the previous versions enfolded in the present moment.
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Of course, only the gardener really sees the palimpsest in its full ragged glory. Piet Oudolf Tulip clusiana ‘Lady Jane’ w/Astrantia major ‘Sunningdale variegated’
All with an eye to make it feel like it’s invisibly meant to be.Įxperience what happens, act when necessary. Surely the gardener’s craft is to weave all these strands together: to sense when to edit, leave things alone, encourage a self-seeder, to weed or not to weed. Seedlings thrive in spots I never would have though to pick.Īnd without a doubt, a remnant of the original wild layer is still there – in the soil, the buzzing insect life, the seed bank, the air. A native sedge encircles a Himalayan fern. Established old drifts of perennials brush up against the latest leafy acquisition. Wherever I look, visible traces of past and present are busy crossing paths – often with a geographical twist. I have her to thank for the raw bones of the garden now encrusted with lichen – but almost all the plantings have changed.Įxcept each spring, a handful of the red tulips she planted decades ago still resurfaces. In my case, settlers cleared a dense oak savannah to make a village the local handyman rolled in granite boulders by hand, a retired farmer built a low stone wall and planted cedar hedges.Ī generation ago, my english mother made her pretty cottage garden here – with what she called “higgelty-piggelty” mixed borders stuffed with pretty annuals each summer. Go far back enough and every garden exists in a place that was once wild. Comprised of layers both real and imagined, a garden transforms inevitably over time – whether by natural growth and decay, the occasional lightning strike, and of course, the gardener’s yen for change. A place that reflects and contains its own natural history. This word may be ripped from archaeology but it sounds like a garden to me. And where traces of the previous layers may still be partly read. 1 The garden is a palimpsest.ĭefinition: A palimpsest is a piece of paper or manuscript, which has been erased and written over many, many times. With that in mind, here are my ‘spring theories’ – designed to either stir the imagination or stir the pot, as you will. If spring is about new life, it’s also about unearthing fresh ideas. Anemone sylvestris with Geum triflorum and others in background A vast legion of plants is coming in fast, green, and lush – preparing for their moment in the sun. Love the porcelain delicacy of the tulip paired with Polygonatum variegatum and othersīarely a week later, it all flies by – the last of my tulips got chomped by deer, along with a few choice perennials. Spiky filaments of Camassia and Allium light up the sunnier beds in a wandering halo of purple and blue. The crabapple tree is weeping shell-pink blossoms as the red lady ferns unfurl from beneath its dappled shadow. Overthinking It.It’s now full-on spring in the sheltered woodland of my northern un-cottage garden."Cartoon Conspiracy" The Clarence/Over the Garden Wall Theory.Nettlewild Fairy - Over the Garden Wall theories.page research paper on why Over The Garden Wall is.'Over the Garden Wall' creator planning a "spiritual successor" to his.An Interesting Theory About the Beast from "Over the Garden Wall".What was Greg's Wish in Over the Garden Wall? Theory.Your Over the Garden Wall Theory About the Unknown Is Valid.Julie Sanders, in her seminal work on adaptation theory, observes that “one In Over the Garden Wall, the Unknown embodies this process of Adapting Folk and Fairy Tale Functions in