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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Any gardener starts considering buying garden accessories or alternatively checking out that Gardeners’ Heaven garden fork — but let’s not forget, it’s taken centuries to reach this level. Hoes and shears are surprisingly new adaptations, but as you’re aware, gardens themselves are as old as the human race. Your recreation had its humble origins within the cradle of civilization itself. Ancient Egyptians tended to gardens for pleasure, for practical reasons, and we shouldn’t ignore spirituality. Usually surrounded by walls of stone, green spaces were filled with vegetables, grapes, flowers, fruit and nut bearing trees, and occasionally pools for fish. While admittedly the majority was grown as food some plants were cultivated to honor some of their gods. Priests also looked after certain roots in places far from the gardens.
Persians, Babylonians and Assyrians mingled together flowers, stunning architecture, vegetables, and fruits with water features and nuts to design glorious park lands. As you’d expect, another example of a nation who practiced this was the Romans — while the Greeks concentrated on the potential for nourishment of their farmsteads rather than the visual. At that time, spades and hoes were the new, unfamiliar labor savers that rakes or garden forks would be in a later age — and that’s before thinking about what they used as materials. They were simple stone things to begin with, but newer pieces used iron, copper, and bronze. The pandemonium of the Middle Ages caused many tribes to set aside the elementary hoe and all the other garden tools — except for the churches, who planted some herbs and flowers for medicinal and religious needs.
Slowly we went back to the practice of engineering gardens to enjoy. Standards began to emerge, a formalized system determining how the garden would, in the end, turn out. Many superb specimens can be found as hedge mazes, which were inspired by labyrinthine textures and patterns.
So if you’re musing on ways to mend some bothersome Alexander Rose problems or reading some in-depth lawn rake reviews, don’t forget that by the 18th century men such as Lancelot “Capability” Brown, Humphry Repton, not to mention William Kent relied on utensils like yours to construct mind blowing gardens. “Capability” Brown and others glanced at the conventions — so set now that they were practically frozen — and discarded any that interfered with their intent, blending a realistic panorama with interesting statuary and other such decorative touches. In the modern day, the way they appear may have altered but nonetheless we tend plants as our forefathers used to. Ultimately, they remain some of the most beautiful places in the world.