A circular bed can be the focus of a garden design
‘Beware of circles’ is the standard advice, from this website, to designers. But if you have a circular feature at the heart of a design then the other circles can become ripples and the idea can work. The garden furniture, both hard and soft, in this design is weather-proof. With a larger canopy the bed could serve as an occasional guest room for hardy visitors.
Water vapour mist can be the focus of a garden design
Water features do not have to be made with liquid water: they can also be formed with water vapour. It tends to settle on the surrounding plants and thus produces the damp humid conditions which some plant species most enjoy
You can be sure the water is purer than pure, because the design is by Atelier Herbert Dreiseitl, for the Tanner Springs Park in Portland, Oregon. Dreiseitl is well known as the author of the best book on the design of sustainable and artistic water features. It is called Waterscapes.
(Photo courtesy Ken McCowan)
Beautiful frozen girls dancing in Central Park New York
Fountains look their best when they interact with climatic conditions: frost, wind, water, sun etc. But of all these things, I like the effects of frost and sun the best.
If architecture is frozen music then frozen music is pure poetry.
(Lovely photograph of Undermeyer Fountain in Central Park NY courtesy Ralph Hockens)
Butchart Fountain works well because it occupies a space - instead of trying to create a space
The famous fountain in Buchart Gardens (in British Columbia, Canada) illustrates the point. It has an excellent place to sit. Many other fountain designers have achieved much less admired results, often with more water, because they have not followed the principle of creating the place before they design the fountain.
(image courtesy Martin leBar)
