{"id":490,"date":"2008-11-04T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-11-04T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T16:29:13","slug":"what-is-the-future-direction-of-garden-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/what-is-the-future-direction-of-garden-design\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the future direction of garden design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">Where should we look to find a welcome future direction for the art of garden design? Chelsea? Kyoto? California? Australia? Saudi Arabia? Wales? A candidate list is, please don&#8217;t laugh, in Wales. It was made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/centre_for_alternative_technology\">Centre for Alternative Technology CAT<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_7022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"img_7022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_7022.jpg\" alt=\"Local slate and a local chicken\" width=\"370\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_7022.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_7022-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_7022-624x419.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local slate and a local chicken<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_496\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/668_6852.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"668_6852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/668_6852.jpg\" alt=\"Food being grown amongst flowers\" width=\"370\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/668_6852.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/668_6852-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/668_6852-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food being grown amongst flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n<p>They are  muddled in some respects, including the design of a Japanese-ey Bridge, but they are surely right about three things:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>they place a great emphasis on the use of local materials. In a famous slate-quarrying region, slate is used in the CAT garden as a building material and as a paving material. This is a welcome contribution to the Great Cause of context-sensitive garden design. If gardens are made with standard &#8216;garden centre&#8217; products they will not have local character<\/li>\n<li>CATare experimenting with the re-combination of food plants with beautiful plants\u00a0 in gardens. This is how gardens always used to be made. The idea of having separate &#8216;aesthetic&#8217; and &#8216;vegetable&#8217; zones in garden began with the renaissance<\/li>\n<li>CAT also have chickens at loose in the garden. They are ornamental and they lay better eggs than anything ever sold in a supermarket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would like to see CAT take these principles to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_design\/shows_festivals\/chelsea_flower_show\">Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> &#8211; and employ a really talented designer to explore and publicize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where should we look to find a welcome future direction for the art of garden design? Chelsea? Kyoto? California? Australia? Saudi Arabia? Wales? A candidate list is, please don&#8217;t laugh, in Wales. It was made by the Centre for Alternative Technology CAT. They are muddled in some respects, including the design of a Japanese-ey Bridge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,24],"tags":[95,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}