COMMUNICATION; MY FAVORITE WORDS/ DESCRIPTIONS DEFINED (THIS IS NOT A RANT-PLEASE READ ON-AND ENJOY! )
by MaryAnn Fink
Conservation Specialist
copyright 2010
Colorculture/ Colorculturalist: A person such as myself who focuses on the embellishment of the landscape by using the color of flowering plants and foliage as major design tool. A horticulturist that is focused on adding the color that the main stream public says they want!
The Naturalista: a person-such as my self who appreciates the ”natural” look but offers it a “hand” through design technique and plant selection to help its visual appeal reach out to the main stream public. The Naturalista is always interested in making environmental education usable information for the end user!
Intentional Greenscaping: focusing on the purpose and function while factoring in ways to maximize a green space’s potential to both serve a function and be esthetically pleasing-max potential / most eye candy bang for the buck yet sustainable!
The New American Garden Artist: This stylized design uses the natural beauty of the native plant palette to create a recognizable complimentary composition that can be reasonably cared for and remain sustainable .
Monet Effect: saturating color in the garden but allowing for imperfections and an ebb and flow effect, massing, fading and blurring within the perimeters of a natural site line.
Moment in the Garden- a snapshot of when we pause long enough to let the crowds and the manmade sounds diminish and the urge to scurry diminish.
Native Boutique Garden - a gathering or collection of native plants that create a very concentrated effect that could possibly happen naturally but I haven’t seen it!
An Intentional Garden: A garden that has a clear, strong voice-obvious passion- based on the basics with human inspiration. Purposeful but not overly contrived/ the power of the natural landscape without being wayward-but still untamed. This type of garden has wild at heart beauty that says “accessible” a garden that invites interactive experience.
An Intentional Garden accentuates her assets. It is easy to appreciate her shapely lines-like a beautiful woman-she is engaging; she evokes a nurturing feeling in the onlooker. Her undertone and overtone is truthful, captivating. She elevates whoever she calls to a heighten awareness. Her natural inspired influence engages-forever changed. She beckons you with her sounds, begs to be touched and only wants to be. She can share a heartfelt moment or a lifetime.
An Intentional Garden brings it- the feel; even a mood- creates a relationship between the caretaker and the space. A budding love or maybe Love at first site!
Love at first site! Irrisistable -memorable moment when I first look at a landscape and imagine its possibilities! My Favorite gardens, thankyou to a few of my fav's Matt and Lisa-Oma's Barn, Dave Guempel, Mary Harrison, June Hutson and Dianne O'Connell!
Birthright landscape- born on site, elementary, stylized but recognizable.
Sanctuary / Habitat Garden: A place that invites wildlife and memories and private moments to pray and meditate - Planned seating is essential as are intimate vignettes. My favorite type of garden!
Bridge gardening: the trifecta of gardening, striving for a perfect balance, a threefer, the human element with the natural world and the spiritual realm: reaching for Eden- developing a space that encourages a walk in the garden with God!
Garden Prayer Work: Garden project-chores used to open up internal communications particularly with God. (Sometimes it turns external and you find yourself talking to a passerby in the truest purest voice- straight from your heart. When considering the gardening activity, its worth and myself, it find it a uniquely interactive time with God on a personal level that is open and comfortable- the best garden activity is one that you can slip into, while you explore your thoughts.
This is when I am most inspired to write my garden blessings / prayers. The work part is only in the application or intent –clearing your mind of trivial issues, bringing up the deepest feelings and putting them into a voice and talking to God. Suddenly it is meaningful on a spiritual level and near the end of the activity I find myself renewed.
E-harmony : Horticulturaly speaking it is environmental matchmaking. It is creating a marriage of site and soul worthy of growing together. A willing exchange, for me a vow filled with passion I can’t explain. E-harmony creates a healing place for the wounded, a memory connection to the past and path to the future and most importantly a resting place for now. E-harmony is dynamic. It is a conduit for energy between the garden and the gardener that connects all you circuits, stimulates the senses and hints of what the future relationship can become as it grows!
A Natural Habitat Garden: A Connection- not a documentary- not meant to devalue or demoralize a space. It is knit together, not fully random but a tapestry of corridors and patchwork that is sewn together by Nature and its caretaker.
A first step garden / door step garden: Welcomes you HOME or into gardening particularly with natives, the familiar, the mascots, a positive reminder of the positive aspects that impact us enough to recognize it represents where we live.
Good Neighbor Garden: A combination of natives and compatible –non-invasive plant selections that are appropriately selected for the site, environmentally friendly and functional as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Anywhere, USA Gardening: Total disregard for indigenous plants, may include invasive, and tropicals – not necessarily hardy or appropriate plant use for the site and sense of place. Anywhere, USA Gardening is not as universally appealing as it sounds, instead it is a pick up and put it anywhere “cookie cutter” use of a limited palette of plants that fall short of inspiring!
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