from the next. When walking out of your door to your Dutch
garden, you are not confronted with otherworldly beauty;
you experience the playful dialogue between different plant
groups— their varying colors, textures, heights—and the
larger conversation that incorporates the human touch. You
are meant to participate, to engage in this conversation,
and to be in it. After all, it was Voltaire who as the last line of
Candide, "Il faut cultiver notre jardin," or, "We must cultivate
our own gardens." A garden is not only living—it is life.H
Formerly the nursery,
this Hummelo garden
comprises a wild array
of plants and grasses
including the violet
Eupatorium, the wheatlike Calamagrostis, and
the mossy Panicum.
Photography by
Walter Herfst
&
Jasper Suijten
HYLAND
