SoundPlace&Time

While I do enjoy writing these blogs, despite the fact that I only have one subscriber (who happens to be one of my oldest friends that I’ve known since high school), I thought maybe I should expand my subject matter and write about other interesting stuff. That was the intention of this blog. As the subheading suggests; Garden Design, Landscape of the Mind . . . and Music in Between. Besides, I have written around fourteen entries already about garden design and horticulture. And while that is all good sometimes it does feel like I’m singing from a ‘set-list’ as it were that is becoming too familiar to me. That is not to say SoundPlace&Time will no longer be about British gardening culture, of course it will be. I just thought it would also be cool to write about other interesting stuff, like some of the places I have been fortunate enough to visit this year. One of which was Croatia’s capital city; Zagreb.                   ...

  A little while back, I was recommended by an acquaintance to pay a visit to a double-fronted Terrace house in the west London suburb of Acton to discuss the idea of designing the Household’s back garden. The Household consists of five Nuns-in-Residence who belong to the Society of Medical Mission Sisters whose role is community advocacy and health services activism. Their house is, in fact, two terraces with the façade of two front doors. It is a large brown brick house with sections of the dividing wall removed to allow for more space and thus making it one house. The clients’ home interior is very warm and welcoming, reflective of the line of work they do within their community. And given that all five Nuns are from different parts of the world, their décor expresses an international community ideal. Lots of traditional ornaments and soft furnishings were on display from Kenya, Colombia, Indonesia, India, and the United States. Regardless of the diverse collection of the clie...