The ground
Artful attention and arrangement on the grounds of your home, the balcony of your apartment, or the window box outside your rented room can make your space a mini Eden. You may go for the opulent, the exotic, and the tamed, or you may follow a wiser path to paradise. Using plants appropriate for your climate,
you may go low maintenance. But that needn’t mean boring or plain. When you imitate the natural landscape on your grounds, you’re going for the greater aesthetic.
Celts of the fifth century brought their love of nature and their awareness of the sacred into Christianity when they converted, says Bob Abernathy. They were fierce warriors who lived simple lives and valued the hushed, brooding landscape.2
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