It’s amazing how wonderful a sunny evening and 42-degrees F feels after a long, cold, snowy winter. As simple a task as cutting down some ornamental grasses was, it felt so incredibly relaxing and refreshing.
With my ever-expanding awareness of Permaculture and landscape design, I now view our landscape in a totally new light. I’ve become more aware of the beautiful, living, breathing, evolving ecological canvas that it is.
I look around with wide eyes and an open mind, looking to see what exists; it’s characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities. I ask myself how we can help it help us fulfill our needs and wants.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’ve scrapped nearly all of my original plans- put this tree here, and that shrub there, etc.
I am now viewing the nearly blank slate as the zones that will evolve in the months and years to come, how we wish to use each area, what we will do to make it the way we want and what it will return to us, what companion plants will complement the existing, established landscape elements, etc.
As the sun sets, I move my focus to the seeds and sprouts that I am planting and closely monitoring- realizing that they are literally the seeds of this landscape’s future.
