Thanks for explaining something that us humans need to learn more about when it comes to the concept of landscape architecture. Hiring an expensive architect to create blueprints for your garden and planting it all out at the same time will never be as successful as someone who seeks a far more deeper relationship with what their garden already is doing and slowly collaborating with it as it transitions into something much more beautiful and vibrant.
Contrast what Jill is saying with corporate housing projects that build cookie cutter homes on tiny lots that get landscaped once and then made stagnant and boring by mow and **** landscaping services that turn every thing that was planted into a hedge where nothing new ever gets planted.
It's the difference between landscape design that imposes your will on the land with not regard for what's already there or what can be added in the future versus listening and collaborating with the land as it finds its way. And while the former might have merit in the built world, that's not how nature does it best.
Gregory Cajete takes this one step further in his book Native Science https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049116.Native_Science where he explains that the the western world's notion of scientific observation is based on the folly of "obejctivity" which is impossible and can become highly destructive if left unchecked. He explains how Native Americans for thousands of years have based scientific observation on the desire to be in right relationship with all the other life forms we share our world with. In other words, how do I make my garden more beautiful every day a little bit at a time as it grows? That's what truly the question that when answered makes for a beautiful garden!
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