“Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).” ThinkingMeanDifferentOffersGardenFranceErasFormalGeographyDifferent ErasTableau Author:Martha Ronk
“I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.” MeanHappensLanguageCenturyGardenFragileFragile Things Author:Martha Ronk
“I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.” ThinkingWayKindMadeEyeUsedExampleShapesGardenEarsDressesQueensJust OneReignVirginsSpyCastlesAppearingSymbolismQueen ElizabethWearing A Dress Author:Martha Ronk