Friday, October 31, 2014

Sir Roy Strong: Temper Tantrum + Bon Mot


An odd thing has happened with my favorite living garden designer, Sir Roy Strong.
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His garden has been turned down by the National Trust.
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He's having a public temper tantrum.  Which I thought he would have been too smart to contemplate.
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Worse, a more recent picture of his garden, The Laskett, was incredibly Hodge-Podge-Lodge.



Sir Roy Strong is on my Google words list, and this morning proved delicious.
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Lavender's Blue wrote about,  The Irish Georgian society + Island Hall Godmanchester, including this bon mot, " At least we didn't have to resort to flowers!", from Sir Roy Strong.
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Exactly.



Pics, above, from the article, prove, No-Flowers-Needed.
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Until reading the article, and seeing the bridge, above, I was unaware my life was bereft of a rococo Chinese Bridge.
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However, saying, "I need a rococo Chinese Bridge", aloud, feeds the soul as a poem.
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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara
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Of course gardens need flowers, however, if a garden design must include masses of showy annual flowers & sweeping perennial borders to lift it above the mundane, it is a failure.
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NOTE to my gardening friends... look for changes to come. 
Knew before computers/cell phones, sitting in Atlanta traffic on way to a client, 'I must reach a larger audience with the same amount of effort.'   Soon after that epiphany I signed my CBS-TV, and, books contracts on the same day.
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Then I read an article in the NYTimes about something called 'blogging'.  Saved the article for a year before reading it.  Studied all the blogs they mentioned, hired a computer expert they quoted, and attended a blogging seminar.
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Blogging 2.0 has arrived, my knowledge is 1.0.  A believer in copying the best historic gardens across the globe it flows into every arena of life.  Watching Maria Killam grow her career/blog/life over the past 3 years made its impact.  Signed up  for a year's course with her blogging expert, Jon Morrow
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Changes will be slow, plodding is my adored method.  Pulling triggers here/there is spice in the mix.
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What do YOU want?
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Nothing is too small, too big, or too ego crushing to mention.
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Passion lies in sharing what has filled me to the depths of grace, joy & atonement, the best landscapes created over the last 2,000+ years.

Just so you know... 

 I  welcome your input.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting post. The UK sounds as hardcore about gardens as the US is about pop-culture, and loud trucks. The bridge is incredible...

Divine Theatre said...

I wish to be as great a failure as Sir Roy Strong.
He misses his wife. That much is evident.

xo

Andie

cotedetexas said...

Maria is an anomaly i'm afraid. i am in awe of her abilities. she can write a title that draws everyone in to read. haha. she writes the best titles in blogging!!! let me know how it goes.

Thistle Cove Farm said...

we do strange things when our feelings are hurt.

Maria Killam said...

That is so interesting about annuals and makes sense!
A garden has to be pretty without them! xo Maria

Anonymous said...

I am with you on this one..!!

Going through the most painful lining of our pond......we have a chinoiserie bridge built out of branches of mesquite!

It has been an agonizing process....because we picked the wrong person to do it! it is a sad song......don't do it!

It is very expensive.....It is close to a happy ending

!!!
Penelope

Tara Dillard said...

Wish someone would write about Julia's thoughts on 'their' garden.

Perhaps she was the one the national trust was seeking, then he changes everything and they don't want the garden.

Lovely to have a book with Vita/Harold, and, Roy/Julia, and the 'other' spouse as the true force...???

XOT