Monty Don waxing poetic about hanami is exactly what I need in my life right now. The French & Italian shows were great but Japanese garden design is really on a different level. Can't wait to be blessed by these epshttps://twitter.com/Mulboyne/status/1096982229991940096 …
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Sacro Bosco/Parco dei Mostri/Garden of Bomarzo was pretty sweet though. This 16th century guy looking alt all these ornate water gardens of the rich and powerful and being like, nah, fuck symmetry, give me a big creepy face and Hannibal's elephant crushing a man to death? Amazingpic.twitter.com/9AE0WrrDVx
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MD’s first stop is, naturally, Kenroku-en (兼六園), a garden that exemplifies the six complementary design attributes of spaciousness and seclusion, artifice and antiquity, the use of water and panoramic vistas. Visiting this garden deeply affected how I view the design of spacespic.twitter.com/EEN3MlOCs5
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Every resting point frames vistas beyond, suggests new areas with curving paths, meticulously arranges elements to look absolutely natural, embraces imperfection by framing it deliberately...all to highlight the beauty of the things growing within & evoke these powerful feelingspic.twitter.com/I3TIUhzKdh
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really appreciating these images and observations, thanks for posting!
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