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On Psyche's Lawn - The Gardens at Plaz Metaxu (Hardcover)
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On Psyche's Lawn - The Gardens at Plaz Metaxu (Hardcover)
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Alasdair Forbes has been developing his innovative and beautiful
garden, Plaz Metaxu, in Devon, for the past thirty years. The
thirty-two acre garden has been internationally acclaimed both as
an unusually ambitious contemporary example of the making of place
and for its poetic and psychological insights. Trained as an art
historian, Alasdair always wanted his garden to be open to the
worlds of myth, literature and the other arts, while remaining
keenly aware of the strengths, vulnerabilities and delights a
garden has to offer in its own right. He has been the only
full-time gardener at Plaz Metaxu from its beginning until the
present day, though invaluable part-time assistance has been
provided by Cyril Harris (who is not a professional gardener
either). The whole garden, with its lawns and fritillary meadows
and hedges, its bowers, groves and woods, its lake and its
courtyards, its 'carousel beds', and its landscaped walks to far
horizons, is entirely the creation of these two men. This
beautiful, richly illustrated book is Alasdair's own account of how
and why the garden was made. He writes of its many inspirations,
from Psyche herself to poets, painters and the mysterious paredros
. . . not forgetting the valley landscape, with its noble precedent
at Studley Royal, and its wise mentors from the Far East. In
everything he has done, Alasdair has been the pupil of the spaces
that surround him; his rare gift has been to become their
ventriloquist, in finding out how they themselves want to 'speak'.
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