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Nov 8, 2024 2:35 AM CST
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Name: Karen
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Years ago, I found a Hiroshige woodcut on the internet depicting whirlpools below an overlook, with waves arcing above them. The artist made the water fragment into diamonds as it fell back down into the water from the apex of that arc. This isn't the first time I've seen how hosta can have the effect of water in a garden. But what a difference from the effect of a placid pool of water that large blue hostas can make in a garden - to the effect of agitated whirlpools that your narrower hosta leaves make with their edges splashed in white. To me, the white flowers of the shrub rising just behind and to the left of the hosta mimic the falling spray of water in Hiroshige's painting. https://www.roningallery.com/N...

ps - see also 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' https://www.google.com/search?...

pps - could you identify the white-flowered shrub?

ppps - at its best, my garden never attained the beauty of a Japanese woodcut, but if my vandal is reading this, I hope you might better understand how disruptive - design-wise - digging someone's plants and then moving them around until one day - they're gone (sold?). Gaslighting at its best.
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free ... Till by turning, turning we come round right." Shaker Hymn, Joseph Brackett
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