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Sidney Walker's avatar

Love the rain garden Jan! ‘Naming a place’ reminds me of ‘talking to your plants’: giving them being and attending to them. The imagery that follows ‘naming’ in design development starts the creation process, yes? Super cool

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Jan Johnsen's avatar

Exactly!

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Claire Splan's avatar

Loved this piece. Names make things more purposeful somehow.

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Jan Johnsen's avatar

thats the perfect word - 'purposeful'

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Anne Wareham's avatar

I am definitely into naming - https://gardenrant.com/2024/02/the-names-of-things.html

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Jan Johnsen's avatar

it makes it special!

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Anne Wareham's avatar

Every bit, you think?

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Krys Stefansky's avatar

Thanks to an upturned tree in the middle of a swath of Autumn Ferns, I planted the dirt-covered lump of roots and stump and named it Fern Hill. Everyone in the family now knows exactly where that is.

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