In popular culture, women's friendships are often foregrounded at times when there's less of an organized feminist movement in the background: it's a D.I.Y., cultivate-your-own-garden vision of female solidarity.
The garden city vision combines the very best of town and country living to create healthy homes for working people in vibrant communities.
Since then, master plan developers have drawn on the garden city vision, albeit with varying degrees of commitment to its social and political ambitions.
With tumbling roses, apple trees, hollyhocks and even swans, the garden was a vision of English loveliness.
The books all agree that proper gardens are planned to be different in every season, and seem to advise against the garden from my vision.
I'm talking about garden cities – a vision of communities where future generations will live, work, have children, grow up and grow old.
The World Vision garden by John Warland uses floating waves of turf and under-plantings of tulips and daisies to represent the vulnerability of many children living in poverty and the hope the charity brings to them.
With this strong reference towards these principles emerging in the coalition government's policies it is worth re-examining the original vision; garden cities combine the very best of town and country living to create healthy homes for working people in vibrant communities.
The gardens of Andalusia, we learn from a fascinating book cited by the exhibition, "Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain," by D. Fairchild Ruggles, drew on the technologies of irrigation established in the region by the Romans but expanded the area's repertory of plants, bringing in seeds from distant parts of the Islamic empire, transforming the Spanish landscape.
Additional file 1: Video – Restoring the Gardens at Tl'chés – Vision (2012).
