Hello!
In the past week, I have been to NYC and to Hyde Park, NY to see a film about Beatrix Farrand. As the gardening season beckons to us in North America, I have some thoughts and items to share with you:
Steal Away!
This sage advice to poets was said by T.S. Eliot but it applies to gardeners and landscape designers just as well:
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.” - T.S. Eliot
So steal design or plant ideas as you wish - only make sure that you make it a ‘whole of feeling’ that is your own and very different from that ‘which it was torn’. And I love his line about ‘something which has no cohesion’. That is the worst design critique you can get - “no cohesion”.
Film to See
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