This is my mother’s garden.

It has a painterly quality with well arranged textures and brilliant colors.

She’s a former painter so I was curious to know if this effect was planned. “No,” she said with a wave of the hand, “I go shopping, I find things I like, then bring them home and plant them.” I was incredulous but perhaps without cause.

On the subject of landscapes, David Hockney speaks of painters seeing space in a way not everyone can see. He says nature doesn’t follow the rules of perspective, because nature is too complicated. Hockney says with landscape, perspective doesn’t make space, it strangles space.

So, my mother the gardener, a former painter, planted intuitively for over 30 years. She’s created quite a landscape.