Mountain Meadow at the Forest Edge

I am too lazy to resize and repost another round of pictures for another tour when I have already done it else where and too tired from taming tropical jungles that were left untended for two weeks. Do not turn your back on the jungle in June! Click the link below for another North Carolina Garden.

There is not a blade of grass to mow or whack. There are no shrubs that need to be boxed or rounded and readied for orbit. There is not a lick of hardscape and no sharp edges to the paths that meander in what seems to be a loose interconnected weave pattern.

This is a garden for the plant lover and the botanist, for a gardener who was inspired by the beauty of nature. This is a garden where puttering, meandering and planting is like a hike through the woods in a virgin forest.

Is it a garden? Else where there have been discussions about nature not being a garden, that the hand of man was required. What if the hand is light on the taming end but very active in the planting and multiplying? What if nature has an equal say in who stays and who goes?

This is not your typical suburban landscape.

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ilima