Digging Deep - Adding a personal dimension to your garden
Digging Deep - Adding a personal dimension to your garden By Donna Wildearth How do we experience a garden? Probably the first thing we notice is the visual aspect — the colors, textures and overall design that appeal to us. We may also enjoy fragrant flowers and plants with aromatic foliage and the scent of newly mown lawn or freshly turned earth. Fruits and vegetables delight our sense of taste, plants such as furry Lamb's Ears invite us to touch them and then there are soothing garden sounds such as running water, bird songs and the buzzing of busy bees. The more senses we can bring into play, the more deeply we can enjoy our garden. But a garden can have another dimension — what I think of as the ultimate dimension — if it is also a place with some personal significance, so that it appeals to us not only physically but emotionally, intellectually or spiritually. Imagine stepping into a garden that reminds you of people, places or ideas that are meaningful to you. Here...