(May 14, 2013 at 11:37 am)Rhythm Wrote:(May 14, 2013 at 10:48 am)whateverist Wrote: A garden is also a place and constitutes an environment for a community of living things which interact with a 'will' of their own. I may not believe in God but I play one in my garden.Bit like herding cats...lol.
I can be a vengeful god, relegating the weak or uninteresting to the compost heap, while unrepentant mollusks are casually crushed between thumb and finger.
But by and large I try to treat the will of the garden as an equal partner. I'm not one for clipped hedges and loads of symmetry. Plausibly natural looking with picturesque flourishes using loads of exotic plants is my ideal. Of course whatever natural looking may mean gets filtered through me.