Julian Blackhirst, Head of Gardens at the Diggers Club believes that there is a garden in the mind. The Mundus Imaginalis, the imaginal world or the world of ideas informs Julian’s gardening practice. His approach to gardening is a combination of human imagination with the magic of nature.
Join him as he explores the concept of the flow of ideas between us and nature. When a garden dies back, our experience of that garden disappears into our memory and into the earth.
The future of the garden exists in the seed and the promise of the plants. Add the human element which refines the magic of nature and shapes the possibility of the garden for the new season. As humans we cultivate Mother Nature’s craft into art in the form of collective horticultural creations or cultivars.
