Sir Roy Strong: Temper Tantrum + Bon Mot

An odd thing has happened with my favorite living garden designer, Sir Roy Strong.

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His garden has been turned down by the National Trust.

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He's having a public temper tantrum.  Which I thought he would have been too smart to contemplate.

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Worse, a more recent picture of his garden, The Laskett, was incredibly Hodge-Podge-Lodge.

Sir Roy Strong is on my Google words list, and this morning proved delicious.

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Lavender's Blue wrote about,  The Irish Georgian society + Island Hall Godmanchester, including this bon mot, " At least we didn't have to resort to flowers!", from Sir Roy Strong.

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Exactly.

Pics, above, from the article, prove, No-Flowers-Needed.

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Until reading the article, and seeing the bridge, above, I was unaware my life was bereft of a rococo Chinese Bridge.

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However, saying, "I need a rococo Chinese Bridge", aloud, feeds the soul as a poem.

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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara

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Of course gardens need flowers, however, if a garden design must include masses of showy annual flowers & sweeping perennial borders to lift it above the mundane, it is a failure.

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NOTE to my gardening friends... look for changes to come. 

Knew before computers/cell phones, sitting in Atlanta traffic on way to a client, 'I must reach a larger audience with the same amount of effort.'   Soon after that epiphany I signed my CBS-TV, and, books contracts on the same day.

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Then I read an article in the NYTimes about something called 'blogging'.  Saved the article for a year before reading it.  Studied all the blogs they mentioned, hired a computer expert they quoted, and attended a blogging seminar.

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Blogging 2.0 has arrived, my knowledge is 1.0.  A believer in copying the best historic gardens across the globe it flows into every arena of life.  Watching Maria Killam grow her career/blog/life over the past 3 years made its impact.  Signed up  for a year's course with her blogging expert, Jon Morrow. 

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Changes will be slow, plodding is my adored method.  Pulling triggers here/there is spice in the mix.
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What do YOU want?

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Nothing is too small, too big, or too ego crushing to mention.

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Passion lies in sharing what has filled me to the depths of grace, joy & atonement, the best landscapes created over the last 2,000+ years.

Just so you know... 
 I  welcome your input.