CATCHING AND KEEPING FLEETING GARDENS: THE ARCHIVES OFAMERICAN GARDENS

摘要

"Next to cooking," American landscape architect Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) once surmised, "gardening seems to be the most ephemeral of the arts in America." Think of how a garden changes each and every day, making it transitory and impermanent underthe best of circumstances. Gardens also disappear, transform radically, or decline when exposed to any number of threats including disastrous storms, encroaching development, or diminished resources.