Plants and memory by Landscape Masterworks on Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
Plants have history. They create and evoke memories. The most powerful memory recall attribute in plants is smell. Whenever I catch even the faintest scent of English Boxwood, I am instantly brought back to my late Grandmothers front garden. I can see her face as easily as I can smell the unusual and somewhat acrid odor of the boxwood. My mind then wanders to the many great memories created in that garden, and a smile is inevatable.....all due to a brief exposure to a very common and ordinary looking plant. The appearance of individual plants and the orchestration of them in the landscape is indeed important....but the many other subtle joys plants bring to us are mostly overlooked. Considering those aspects of plants that bring less obvious fulfillment to us, makes richer the Design experience for both designer and client. Entire memory gardens can be created. Imagine your morning coffee in a secluded courtyard within yards of the very same plant that grew right outside the dugout in little league, or the school yard, or Mom's front door.
By Cristian Beaulieu Pres. EO landscape masterworks
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