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Thomas Rainer Hits It Out of the Park AGAIN.
I’m sure that my readers are but a small, ragtag subset of Grounded Design readers, but if you haven’t read Thomas Rainer’s new post, “Why the Perennial Border Matters“, please do so. In his post,...
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The Large Piece of Turf
Albrecht Durer’s “The Large Piece of Turf” features a chunk of soil and weeds that could just as easily have been dug up from the vacant lot down the street from me (here in 2012) as from the German...
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Christoph Niemann’s “Bio Diversity”
Enjoy these amusing botanical images from Christoph Niemann’s wonderful book Abstract City. Niemann is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and this book is a compilation of creative little...
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Art and the Garden, Part I: Early Mishaps in Art
This week Garden Designers’ Roundtable is posting about Art and Sculpture in the Garden. Even though I signed up to post this month, I have to confess that art and sculpture intimidate me a little, in...
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Art and the Garden, Part II: Learning to See
La Siesta, by P. Picasso All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso One of the more frustrating aspects of teaching school is being party to a...
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Garden Designer’s Roundtable: Art and the Garden
Take a look at the pair of images below. What would you say they have in common? Left: “The Arch of Nero” by Thomas Cole Right: Photo by John Glover. Now, I’m pretty sure the garden vignette on the...
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Putting the Garden Back in Sculpture Garden
Since we’re on the subject of art, check out what DC’s Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden used to look like: No wonder they shut it down in 1979 for a major redesign. Can you imagine what it would have felt...
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The Art of Abandonment
A few miles south of where I live there’s an old DC prison complex which used to be known as Lorton Reformatory. Several years ago, they shut the place down and transformed a few of the larger...
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Is Designing Solo the Best Way?
Photo Credit: US Mission Geneva In the Final Comprehensive of my Landscape Design Course, we had to work in teams of three. I was in a group with two other talented people (both professional...
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Garden Designers’ Roundtable: Bouquets to Art
On February 13th, I went grocery shopping on my way home from work. Right away I noticed things seemed different in the store. Men. There were lots of men. Oh yeah, tomorrow’s Valentine’s, I...
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