In “The Renaissance of Cute”, Nick Mount describes the free gift of beauty to urbanites as a revolution. Hell, gardeners have been doing this forever!
Perhaps in downtown London or Toronto gardens are absent, but in Vancouver and Victoria they are an integral part of the streetscape. There’s even a direct equivalent to street art: guerrilla gardening; where people take over areas of emptiness and despair and bring colour & hope. Of course, like street art, there are no gallery owners or editors filtering the gardens, so the tacky amateur ones filled with red geraniums sit alongside captivating and sophisticated designs.
Perhaps the only reason gardens are not considered works of art is because they can’t be bought and sold.
This article reminded of a year old posting I saw.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/10/dirty-trick-cau.html
Very cool and gone in a flash...
KMM
