<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; background: #ccecff; mso-border-alt: thin-thick-thin-medium-gap windowtext 9.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">‘<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'; color: blue;">Gardening, in its humble way, is an art as well as a craft … it keeps us in touch with the earth, the seasons, and with that complex of interrelated forces which we call nature. It is a humanising occupation.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christopher Lloyd
It's art and craft and therapy - plants don't answer back, although I will talk to them. It is optimistic and life enhancing. It is creative and also practical and productive - at least one lives in hope that we will get some warmth and sunshine as well as the rain - optimistic you see!
i think it is a form of art.. putting plant together that corodinate in colour and compliment each other... sie and shapes and how you layout your garden.. is all art to a degree.. and being able to stand back and admire your work is the most pleasing part.. just like a fine painting.
only difference is the garden changes colours and shapes and moves and invites you in to have a look all year round..
Gardening can be art the same way anything (a urinal or an unmade bed) can be art if you intend it to be (though just because something is art it doesn't mean it's good art). I don't think of my vegetable patch as art, but I do approach the design and layout of my garden with artistic elements in mind: colour, form, contrast etc. (Yes I did go to art school)
It's art with a touch of craft but also immensly satisfying for body mind and soul. I think if you have a creative nature and a desire to make something beautiful - even if you do make mistakes you can call it art. I also feel that with gardening your not alone in your art - the gardens around and the wildlife, flora and forna of the world outside your garden contribute to the 'canvas' within your boundaries.
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It's art and craft and therapy - plants don't answer back, although I will talk to them. It is optimistic and life enhancing. It is creative and also practical and productive - at least one lives in hope that we will get some warmth and sunshine as well as the rain - optimistic you see!
i think it is a form of art.. putting plant together that corodinate in colour and compliment each other... sie and shapes and how you layout your garden.. is all art to a degree.. and being able to stand back and admire your work is the most pleasing part.. just like a fine painting.
only difference is the garden changes colours and shapes and moves and invites you in to have a look all year round..
Gardening can be art the same way anything (a urinal or an unmade bed) can be art if you intend it to be (though just because something is art it doesn't mean it's good art). I don't think of my vegetable patch as art, but I do approach the design and layout of my garden with artistic elements in mind: colour, form, contrast etc. (Yes I did go to art school)
It's art with a touch of craft but also immensly satisfying for body mind and soul. I think if you have a creative nature and a desire to make something beautiful - even if you do make mistakes you can call it art. I also feel that with gardening your not alone in your art - the gardens around and the wildlife, flora and forna of the world outside your garden contribute to the 'canvas' within your boundaries.