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Pedestrian though the act of arranging growing plants on and in the ground may seem in relation to the abstruse esthetics of painting, poetry, or composing, it is nevertheless design in form, texture, color, and time; it is our poetic lifeline back to Mother Nature, in an increasingly denatured world.  And being design in both time and space, it has symphonic and architectonic potentials which are very great because they are so difficult to achieve.  Every act of planting design, from potted geranium to major park, is an act of science, because the plant we select and maintain is a product of genetics, propagation, soil technology, plant nutrition, pruning and plant pathology.  It is an act of art, because it involves a choice among form, colors, and textures which cannot be made upon technical or functional bases alone.  And it is an act of nature because when art and science have done all they can, the growth process which produces the effect envisioned by the designer is the same process which produced the original and continuing wilderness.

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Garrett Eckbo