Getting the vision on paper
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The initial and illusively facile step in designing a garden is generating a program statement, which provides the garden with a guiding spirit as well as a blueprint for a body. A program statement should enable a designer to derive an ever clarifying vision for what he wants in a garden and how the components, functions and other factors relate holistically to each other and his life.
Publication Name: The American Gardener
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9978
Year: 2004
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Ecology is the focus of museum garden renovation
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The renovation of the sunken garden at the Contemporary Museum of Honolulu to better reflect the museum's contemporary theme and with a design including both native species and non-invasive alien flora is described. is described. The garden combines the wildness of the area's tropical landscape with the principles of formal Asian garden design.
Publication Name: The American Gardener
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9978
Year: 2000
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The itch to pinch
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Incidents of plant stealing or stealing tendrils of plants with the intention of growing such a plant in one's own garden are given.Some offenders convince themselves that stealing part of a plant is not really stealing.
Publication Name: The American Gardener
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9978
Year: 2000
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