Glass Gardening
Anyone can have a garden if they really want to. They can, if they wish, hire a landscape artist and work from his/her drawings, or they can hire professional gardeners to plan, install and initiate their gardens. People can do whatever they like, including establishing their very own vision of how they want their garden to look, and then work from that. From digging out a new garden bed or border and amending the soil, to carefully considering the texture and form they want to have as the growing backbone of their gardens and then plant trees and shrubs.
Then filling in with perennials whose flowering habits are sufficiently differentiated to ensure a steady commitment to flowering at various times during the growing season. And finally, they can make a selection of the many different types of flowering annuals they will plant to ensure that colour, fragrance and beauty gives them pleasure throughout the spring, summer and fall months. Oh yes, there's always the additional option of adding form and colour through the planting of garden urns, pots, whatever is suitable for holding gardens-in-miniature.
Ah, but there is the potential to have another kind of garden beauty surround one in the most intimate of inner spaces; one's very own home. A garden hardy enough to ignore the weather whatever it may be, whenever it happens. A garden whose colour and presence is sufficiently reliable that one knows it will be there for the viewing and the pleasure it gives, all the time.
It takes personal vision, creative impulse, love of the extraordinary, a true aesthetic sense, along with a willingness to work to ensure that vision comes to fruition, whether in the pursuit of establishing an outside garden to surround one's living arrangements, or establishing that other type of garden - a glass garden to make certain one's need to see beauty and colour regardless of the season is always possible.
That is when the beauty, functionality and practicality of permanent gardens come into the landscape. True, one can paint gardenscapes on canvass and display them on the walls of one's home, and that works splendidly. But glass gardens attract, reflect, emit and show off light in a way that no other element does, making them slightly more perfect for the job at hand.
Judge for yourself.
posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 21, 2006
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