There is a well establish link between gardens and art .
Throughout history , gardens andplantshave put up the inspiration for some of theworlds great nontextual matter – most obviously model like Monet ’s paintings of his garden at Giverny , Van Gogh ’s Sunflowers , or Manet ’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe .
garden can also be the background for great nontextual matter , where body structure and sculptural oeuvre are ready in the landscape , each raise the other to make something unparalleled . Gaudi ’s Park Güellin Barcelona may be the greatest of these .
Perhaps , therefore , I should not have been quite so surprised , when I visitedEdinburgh ’s National Gallery of Modern Artrecently , to see this artistry and garden link exemplified again .
In this case it arises because the neo - Greco-Roman gallery construction ( and there are two of them – Modern 1 and Modern 2 ) , are themselves limit in beautiful garden .
Gallery Gardens
Below , you may see my daughters relaxing in the retro Acapulco chair in front of the farseeing border outside the cafe , which at the time of ourvisitwas themed with the silver grey , blue and purpleness of Allium , Cardoons and Forget - me - nots .
There is also a picture of the a Euphorbia mellifera ( bottom right wing ) , one of my very favouriteplantsand the largest case I ’ve ever seen .
And another surprise – and a very inspiring one – were these allotments set in the grounds of Modern 2 :
To finish the picture of art meeting gardens here is ‘ Landform Ueda ’ by Charles Jencks . Inspired by natural shape found in nature and estimate from chaos possibility , it forms the centre piece of the garden in front of Modern 1 .
Martin Cole has been an avid plant lover and nurseryman for more than 20 year and have sex to talk and write about gardening . In 2006 he was a finalist in the BBC Gardener of the Year contender . He is a extremity of the National dahlia Society .
He previously lived in London and Sydney , Australia , where he take a diploma class in Horticultural study and is now based in North Berwick in Scotland . He founded GardeningStepbyStep.com in 2012 . The site is direct at everybody who loves plant life or has been bitten by the horticulture bug and wants to bed more .
Gardening Step by Step has beencited by Thompson and Morgan , the UK ’s largest chain armor lodge plant retail merchant , as a site that publish practiced gardening content .
