Bill's Backyard

After all this research into gardens, I overlooked a very close site which is another example of a healing garden. My very own backyard...

My semi-retired father has spent much of his time recently on gardening! He says the act of planting and looking after the plants is relaxing and calming.

Here are the results so far!

The garden is an absolute chaos...but this sense of chaos gives it a fun character, full of curiosity and discoveries. It has a rather mannerist quality to it. Hidden around the garden are statues of animals, gnomes and miscellaneous objects and a couple of water features. There is no sense of planning in the garden at all...just intuition of where objects should go.

When I asked him why he preferred to use free standing pots in the concreted area of the backyard, my dad responded that he didn't want the space to feel too rigid. Potted plants are moveable and provide the flexibility for change to occur. 

Should the healing garden at Monash Medical centre have this attribute of flexibility?