Wabi WildscapingPhilosophy
Wabi specializes in landscapes of strange, lush beauty.
Plants, in our gardens, engulf and transform elements of civilization.
We also question the picturesque representation of nature in home gardens, reintroducing a whole range of emotion from bliss to sorrow.
Wildscaping invites influences from outside the ordered structures of our homes, and gives these influences a home of their own — the garden.
Our work is different from traditional landscaping. Rather than impose an order on nature, we emphasize its disorderly beauty and hope to learn from it.
“This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
-Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
Wabi Wildscaping’s aesthetic ideal is a combination of the Japanese Zen garden and the English Perennial border — vast empty spaces punctuated by explosions of unbearable beauty
“I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value. So, as I walk in the garden, I look at flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that not artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. Each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”
-Bernard Berenson