The drawing above is from the article in the Telegraph.
I found an article today about the Telegraph Garden for the 2014 Chelsea Flower Show. The designers are Tommaso del Buono and Paul Gazerwitz. They favor more formal gardens and their drawings for Chelsea are no exception. "The 2014 Telegraph garden combines some of the guiding principles of Italy’s great horticultural tradition but reinterpreted for a 21st-century design. Inspiration for the garden has come from revisiting the components traditionally found in celebrated historical Italian gardens, to create a bold and uncompromising modern garden."
This garden reminded me of my original idea about the terraces in my own garden. Charles Platt's work in Cornish, NH and Villa Gamberaia, outside Florence, had inspired me to consider a formal Italianate design approach. Now I am revisiting that idea.
Yes. This is marvelous. It gives me the feeling I get when making a painting that suddenly comes together into one whole piece.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I like it also. I wonder if I am being to safe with this choice. I have been thinking, if i do this, I can be more daring than I originally planned in other garden rooms.
DeleteMichael, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I like the formal approach you show in the photo from last fall, with a transition to "artful randomness" on the slope down into the woodland garden. I'm particularly drawn to the narrowing then widening effect with the placement shown in the photo. It draws you on.
ReplyDeleteJames, your right, not what I expected from you. Thanks for an honest response, even if your fans think you are turning too conventional. I am thinking of doing a post on what my garden says about me. There certainly is a traditional upbringing that keeps resurfacing over and over again. If I do it this way, I am going to play more elsewhere.
DeleteMichael, I'm really enjoying this series of posts. Listening to your thinking as it evolves is very interesting -- and engaging. I agree with James. I like the formal beginning and the transition to a crazier, more random style in the woodland garden. How large are the two spaces? Does the woodland garden go off to the left, in the photo above?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your input, Pat. At the far end of the lower Garden, there are 2 entrances on either side. The one to the left goes up granite steps (the Hall with Balls) then to the Upper Garden. The entrance to the right goes to down to the slope to the Woodland Garden. The spaces are small. The entire garden is less than half an acre.There a granite post that is on axis with the two entrances; you can see it to the right of the hedge and the large oak tree trunk at the upper right hand corner of the photo.
DeleteYour response reminds me of how important it is to understand a site before you make suggestions! While I had envisioned a larger space, I still like the idea of continuing the boxwood into the woodland garden, but arranging them in a tumble-down-hill sort of way. Can't wait to learn what you finally decide to do.
DeletePat, I did a Google Earth post of my garden on Feb 5, 2013. It might help you understand the layout of my garden. Thanks for commenting on this boxwood design process.
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ReplyDeleteI like your posts and that you share your thoughts with us, your decision of staying conservative in this part of the garden, and that the comments you´ve got on your blog, maybe have forced (or better: inspired) you to think of changing mood in some other parts of your garden.
Thanks for sharing your proces with us.
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Kjeld
I have thoroughly enjoyed all your responses, Kjeld. I am leaning on this last design and it will cause a chain-reaction in the other parts of the garden that will make the garden as a whole more interesting. Thanks for all your ideas.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, it has a been a fun process
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