Connecting Garden and Home-Multiple Levels of Meaning

Connecting Garden and Home-Multiple Levels of Meaning

A meaningful setting for the home grows both from a particular place--created from elements in the regional context--and from the mind and artistic desires of the owner. The nature of the site must be studied and organized--into plots and subplots, into centers and dualities, boundaries and paths--before building can take place.

The first step in understanding and working with a building site is the recognition that there are three types of assemblies possible on any lot; built form--house, garage, shed; man-made gardens; and the unstructured landscape.

Home Gardening Tips

Home Gardening Tips

Its certainly no suprsie that the popularity of gardening both as a life-style and as a hobby, continues to grow. In the United States 8 out of 10 households participate in some type of home gardening activity. Obviously from the number of people that are doing it, home gardening is one of the most popular recreational activities in nation.

What better way to achieve all this and ome than with gardening. The majority of home gardeners look to planting a variety of plant types including flowers; at least they usually begin by planting flowers anyway. Homegrown kitchen produce is another big thing in home gardening.

The Basics of Japanese Gardening

The Basics of Japanese Gardening

Things to keep in mind for a beautiful garden

Main principles on the garden's design

Bring the Japanese feeling into your garden with these basic steps. Because one of Japanese gardening design main purposes is to recreate large landscapes even in the smallest place. As a miniaturized landscape, the rocks in the garden would represent mountains and the ponds would represent lakes. A space filled with sand would represent an ocean. The elements of time and space

Chinese Gardens and Fountains Are Clues to the Mind

Chinese Gardens and Fountains Are Clues to the Mind

garden centreountains are more than collections of beautiful plants, trees and water. The principles of classical Chinese gardening can be useful and insightful to garden lovers living anywhere in the world. Chinese design objectives can inspire American home gardeners to try something new such as a garden fountain and encourage the expression of culture and philosophy through gardening.

Art in the Garden

Art in the Garden

What does your garden say about you? One easy way to give your garden a bit of personality is to dress it up with garden art and structures. Garden décor should reflect the style and personality of the garden, the gardener, and the surrounding architecture (i.e. your home). If you live in a Tudor and tend a traditional English garden then accessorize with classic garden structures like arbors and outdoor furniture with a more formal feel. Larger embellishments such as garden structures like gates and obelisks tend to stand out in big gardens.

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

The Rewards of Vegetable Gardening

If you love to have fresh produces in the spring and summer, you should consider creating a home vegetable garden. Growing a vegetable garden is a fun and healthy hobby that anyone can excel at.

Home vegetable gardening relieves stress and allows you to be out in the sun. Vegetable gardening is proven to lower blood pressure and clear the mind. The Pros of Organic Gardening

One great aspect of home vegetable gardening is that it does not require a bunch of chemicals. Therefore, home vegetable gardening allows you to have more natural, juicy, and healthier vegetables that are also better for the environment. Growing your own vegetable garden and using less chemicals yields natural food.

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968.

Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.--Julie Moir Messervy, The Inward Garden, 1995, p.19.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. Gardening is an exercise in optimism. The best place to seek God is in a garden. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. Weather means more when you have a garden. ~Unknown.

Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,

They are thy colours.~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made 

By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. ~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden".