When I first walked the four acres of wooded ravines of what would later be christened "The Garden of the Pine Wind" at the heart of Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Ark, I was both delighted and daunted by the experience. The delight came in the site's natural beauty, which reminded me of tromping through the woods as a child - an activity I enjoy to this day. As for my sense of unease, I don't know which was more significant; the expansiveness of the dry drainage ravines that were to be converted to ever-varying cascades and streams, or the omnipresence of ticks and poison ivy.
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