Natural Abandon
Natural Abandon This book is a collection of images which helped to inspire and develop the garden concept of the development on Poole Quay. Natural Abandon conceives the idea of nature reclaiming the declining industrial site to create an unique place of beauty, expression and togetherness.
Many wild shrubs had sprouted over and among the broken ruins, especially the unshaken beantrefoil with its pods, both kinds of mastic, acanthus, dog's-head, foetid silphium, coarse bindweed, centaury and many other plants that grow among ruins. Godwin, J. (trans) (1999) Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Strife of Love in a Dream. London: Thames & Hudson. p.22/23
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit tree wild; White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets cover’d up in leaves; And mid-May’s eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies of summer eves. Keats, J. (2009) Bright Star: The Complete Poems & Selected Letters of John Keats. London: Vintage. - p.237
Looking over the plain, I saw it blooming everywhere with varieties of plants distributed colourwise... Lost in the wonder of the place, I felt consoled. Godwin, J. (trans) (1999) Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Strife of Love in a Dream. London: Thames & Hudson. p.74