{"id":2144,"date":"2006-08-01T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:44:29","slug":"new-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-design\/new-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"New Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

My garden shares little with the Adachi Museum Garden<\/a> except the idea that my design for the planting relies a lot on how I view the garden from within my house. Although my garden never achieves the standard of a “living painting”, I do think a lot of how it looks from indoors from our uncurtained windows. I’ve always been drawn to the Japanese concept of visually blurring the distinction between indoors and out. During Austin’s hot, humid, mosquito rich summers, I spend most of my days inside. As I stand washing dishes, I think, “There’s a space that needs a plant. Look how the light highlights that empty spot in the mini-woodland.”<\/p>\n

During our kitchen remodel we removed the standard small over-the-sink window and replaced it with a window that spans the counter where we do most of our prep work. Now instead of a narrow portrait of the garden, I’m confronted with a CinemaScopic™ landscape. The new window is higher up than the old window, which constrains the foreground view of short people like me. I planted more flowers near the house which I can’t see at all any more.<\/p>\n

My predilection for gardens as private spaces might have misled you into thinking that mine was surrounded by tall hedges or brick walls in the style of Arley Hall Gardens<\/a>. In fact, two sides of my back yard are separated from my neighbors with nothing more than a short chain link fence. The long south side has a new privacy fence<\/a> constructed by new neighbors with small, incessantly yapping dogs.<\/p>\n

Rather than try to screen my neighbors’ back yards, I try to incorporate them into my view. My theory is that a hedge would foreshorten my view. So I planted several small trees instead creating a mini-woodland which provides glimpses of something in the distance while obscuring the fact that it’s just my neighbor’s garage. As the trees have grown taller, I’ve added to the understory planting. Then at ground level, in the spring, Tradescantia takes over and in the fall, oxblood lilies.<\/p>\n

This is not much of a garden to walk in but it does provide a pleasant view when working in the kitchen. Now that I can see much more of it, my mind is whirring with new ideas for filling in the planting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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