2. Garden Work in Progress A Photo Essay

3. Thinking gardens. The inspirication can come from nature. The inspirication can come from nature.

4. Or you can study existing gardens

5. Patterns can be quite simple.

6. I took my inspiration from my old garden.

7. The wall is an essential element.

8. The deck was an essential element.

9. A New House Calls for a New Garden

10. We start with a tabula rasa: not much here.

11. It looks bleak from this direction too.

12. So we create a stone garden with raised deck.

13. Build around existing objects.

14. The rake creates waves; the large rock represents an island, also called a “turtle”.

15. The deck floats on a stone “sea.”

16. Now we wait for the trees to grow.

17. And the geckos need to reproduce themselves

18. Next year we will make real progress.