The first thing to acknowledge about designer gardens is that “garden” is a noun and a verb. It seems that double usage was intentional since a garden is a place of action. Life happens here and humans, since time immemorial, have appreciated this intertwined idea, the ideal of it. A garden is life in motion, a process, a becoming.With its beauty, a designer garden engages the senses. These gardens call forth both emotional and aesthetic responses. The mystery of fragrance from a blooming sage bush. The slant light from the setting sun as it falls on a willow tree. The joyous noise of songbirds. The will to live as seen in an emerging amaryllis bulb.
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