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tlchang37
Registered User
(9/24/04 3:56 pm)
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Hannah's Garden
Well Midori, you have gotten me a bit obsessed... I read "Hannah's Garden" a couple of months ago (which I enjoyed very much, thank you) - and can't quit thinking about the actual garden itself. I *love* the description of it; spiral pathway, flagstone leaves, statuary, medicinal and cottage garden plants - but unfortunately don't have land that would accomodate such an installation... *sigh* I've drawn it in my sketch book for a future piece of property, but that seems very far in the future.
Any chance that you might publish a follow-up of just Hannah's journal (complete with sketches and notes!)? This has really captured my fancy and is not letting go. Thanks for such a compelling sense of place. I want to go there. :-)
Tara
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midori snyder
Registered User
(9/25/04 5:31 am)
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Re: Hannah's Garden
Oh thank you so much! I've been a gardener for most of my life--as a highschool student I had a huge garden in our backyard (a great shambling mess to be sure--but the neighbor on the other side of the fence, an old codger with nothing but roses, hepled me a lot...even if I did tend to the anarchistic). In college I lived out my garden--a plot in a field full of communal plots for students--which meant my tomatoes were bordered by yams and corn of the African student on one side and various Chinese gourds and squashes (smuggled from home) on the other. In Italy I often went to see the magnificent and fantastical gardens around the palazzo...beautiful topiaries, sacred grottos, and mazes.
I have a clear picture of Hannah's garden in mind and did actually draw out plans for it...but I'm not much of a graphic artist so they looked more scribble laundry lists!! I would love to have Hannah's journal...with the plans and the drawings of plants and fey folk together...
For now there are no plans to work on a companion to Hannah's Garden. But I like Cassie...and so I can imagine bringing her back sometime in the future, though when I couldn't say.
On the garden theme...there was an absolutely fabulous article on Donna House, the Navajo ethnobotonist and healer who designed all the landscaping and gardens for the spectacular new American Indian Museum. You can find the article on line--at the NYtimes.com. Just type in her name--it should come up. The Endicott Journal is hoping to do a feature on her for next year.
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midori snyder
Registered User
(9/25/04 5:41 am)
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Re: Hannah's Garden
aw shoot...the September 9th article on Donna House must be purchased on the online NYTimes...sorry about that!
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tlchang37
Registered User
(9/27/04 2:04 pm)
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Re: Hannah's Garden
Drat! It looked fascinating. Not much else comes up about Donna House online. I did find one quote: ' Saying that a "habitat is a place where beings come to life", Navajo ethnobotonist Donna House suggests that habitat is a better descriptor of the dynamic nature of environments than the non-dynamic notion of landscape.'
I love that thought! "a place where beings come to life." (Sounds like Hannah's garden, literally). Next time I'm back East I will have to make the Smithsonian a priority. I would love to read more about her - it'd be great if Endicott could do an article.
btw - Midori, I sent you a 'private message' through ezboard - but have never done that before and don't know if it actually went through... FYI.
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(10/1/04 6:36 am)
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Virtual Gardens
Until you can afford your own magical garden, or a trip to Italy, you could virtually visit the Sacred Grove at Bomarzo:
www.bergerfoundation.ch/J...glish.html
Or see pictures of the Grove of Monsters:
www.bomarzo.net/index_en.html
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AliceCEB
Registered User
(10/1/04 7:12 am)
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Re: Virtual Gardens
Black Sheep, What a beautiful tour. Thank you.
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tlchang37
Registered User
(10/2/04 5:32 pm)
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re: Virtual Tours
How very fun! I loved those. Thank you for the links.
I also ran across a number of books at the library this week on Sacred Spaces and Artist's Gardens, etc... Very motivating, if vicarious. One of the Sacred Space books gave examples, pictures and backgrounds on gardens from all different cultures, from Islamic to Italian. Fascinating, beautiful and inspiring.
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