Bewitched Branches

This unbuilt garden design celebrates the creative and destructive processes at work in the natural world by transporting the participant high into a tree canopy colonized by witches’ broom. The scene is abstracted and selective: Bare branches are arrayed in a dome-like forest. Each carries a hanging clay planter with pendulous and upright perennials. Like a bird, the visitor is invited to occupy one of the wood platform "perches" in the tree canopy floating above billowy grasses and dwarf conifers interplanted with misty whites, blues and silver sage, a Meditteranean palette assembled to evoke skies, clouds and mists. The garden’s emphasis on vertical elements is designed for a spatially immersive experience.