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Glimpses Calling. We see a glimpse of a landscape and instantaneously there is a story in our mind eye. How magical....

STORIES – Landscapes tell a story. We can create stories when we design?

Landscape Design can create a story of a place. It can retell an old story and also it can reimagine that story for the new design… How can we interpret landscape design through art of story telling? When I started creative writing for fun as a hobby my mind went to stories. I started thinking about stories in the landscape and as I read more about landscape design, and read what designer thought I saw

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Sunlight-Catching-On-Plants

Gardens are feeling spaces and they are best created through feeling.

Landscape design is a difficult process to describe (in my opinion). It is for me the ability to focus on a felt sense of the site and the felt sense of the people I imagine for, while I create and draw. It’s a joy to do what I do, to create something that is so abstract and ephemeral even esoteric, having vague meaning only to me or to you (universal). I have understood from the

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02 Circular Garden Long Crendon Oxfordshire

Curves in Crendon – How can sinuous curves in Garden Design help to deal with level differences on a site?

I wanted to talk a little about complex construction and layers in this blog. This was a garden I designed in Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire. My clients wanted elegant curves, a seating space, fine lawn and flower beds. Robert is a well established engineer and I could see that he wanted a neat, refined design, that was (obviously) well engineered.  The site had a lot of level differences between 50cm and 1.4 metres. I came

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Doug Holloway is a landscape architect, and writer. He lives in Oxfordshire with this Wife and Daughter. In his spare time he enjoys, film, food, walking in nature & surfing. In recent years, having met his Wife, who is of Turkish origin, he has also enjoyed Turkish culture, including food, noticeable in his expanded waistline, swimming in the silky Mediterranean of Bodrum, and exploring the wild, arid landscapes of the region… when it is not too hot.