{"id":117586,"date":"2020-07-05T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-be-an-evolutionary-gardener-james-wong\/"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T08:03:29","slug":"how-to-be-an-evolutionary-gardener-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-be-an-evolutionary-gardener-james-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an evolutionary gardener | James Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCreating a pleasing garden is a matter of following your instinctsI\u2019ve been forever fascinated not just by the natural beauty of plants, but by how arranging them can have a profound effect on the overall aesthetics and, by extension, how they make us feel. As an ethnobotanist, I am obsessed by the evolutionary theories that have attempted to explain what appear to be universal rules underpinning garden design. Once you understand the underlying instincts, becoming a better garden designer is suddenly far more straightforward. We talk about gardens as natural spaces, but they\u2019re the exact opposite: human-made environments engineered using natural ingredients. If they were truly \u201cnatural\u201d, we could leave the ecosystem to take its course, letting our plots revert to a wild state \u2013 twisted brambles, boggy puddles and all. Ironically, the second we do that these plots stop being real \u201cgardens\u201d. For when you set out to try and define the word \u201cgarden\u201d, management is one of the defining features they all have in common. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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