It's summertime, in this latitude. It feels good to walk among the trees, enjoying the shade, tasting different aromas, dancing with a variety of shapes and colors.
Even better is to make our own botanical garden! Planting, at our discretion, trees from varied places: blue spruce, cassia, cherry blossom, dogwood, jacaranda, maple, oak, royal poinciana, tulip poplar, willow.
Trees, side by side, without any concerns regarding compatibility, origin, age, amount of light, degree of moisture or nutrients.
Trees that do not have to be arranged in defined sequences, nor organized into specific groups. But which may only be planted according to horizontal and vertical lines.
Such are the rules of this garden.
And as the gardens are to be visited, one must create paths that visitors can enjoy.
Paths that begin and end in the same species.
Numbered paths, in ascending order, so that we can follow them.
Paths that must have something more than other paths, in other gardens, so they deserve to be visited.
Botanical Gardens in competition.
Among colors and shapes.
Dan Cassar, Arboretum (2018). Illustrator: Beth Sobel. Renegade Game Studios.
