Parks and gardens shape our experience through careful combination of regularity and irregularity. Here we may find beds of flowers -- alike in shape, yet each unique in color or fragrance. Elsewhere, we might break the rhythm of simple geometry with shade trees or hedges, a pond or a boulder. This crafted irregularity engages our senses by offering the promise of the unexpected without the threat of the wilderness.
Parks and gardens shape our experience through careful combination of regularity and irregularity. Here we may find beds of flowers -- alike in shape, yet each unique in color or fragrance. Elsewhere, we might break the rhythm of simple geometry with shade trees or hedges, a pond or a boulder. This crafted irregularity engages our senses by offering