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Wednesday 17 September '08
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)
They didn't all like it after all
Here's a letter from someone that didn't seem to like the garden at the NGS day. All the things we like and think are good they felt the exact opposite about. It seems like a very urban view of what gardens should be like - full of flowers and hard edged borders. Wild flower meadows that are 'features' rather than real meadows. Anyone that has visited the Lawson Park garden will know it is quite naturalistic and not very flowery or colourful, funny how even this sort of very mild subversion can elicit such fury. I guess it seemed threatening to these visitors, still its years since I got such an angry letter.
Nice to know we can still annoy.
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2 Comments
It really is amazing how narrow some people's point of view is, and how they simply don't get anything which isn't based on the lowest common denominator ideas. I bet they never stopped to think, or ask, why the LP Gardens were the way they are, assuming they should just be yet another 'English Country Garden' of children's picture books.
Dorian Moore, September 18, 2008 12:49
Blimey is that letter about the NGS for real!! I can't believe it, I've been to a lot of these NGS things this year and most are really ordinary compared to Lawson Park, it's SO rude. Even if I wasn't into a Garden I would never complain, they are people's own homes and they're opening them voluntarily so surely you take the 'rough' with the smooth even if it's not to your taste ...
I can only assume they didn't come to the tea room as we escaped the tirade! In fact my experience in there was that lots of people said how much they had enjoyed it ... this may have been focussed on Alison's incredible cakes but I certainly didn't get anything other than a general positive vibe from people. Did you get any more positive feedback after the event?
Nina
Anonymous, September 23, 2008 14:31