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This is an amazing place appeared in Scotland in the town of Dumfries in 1989. Instead of exotic flowers and an abundance of shrubs flower beds where aluminum, instead of beating up fountains - black holes and optical illusions, and the landscape is simply mesmerizing for its unusual shapes and puzzles. It is unique in its kind, the garden, walking through which you will feel that it has created not a man but an extraterrestrial civilization.
But he has a very real creator, or rather two of them - is an architectural critic and practicing architect Charles Jencks and his wife, landscape architect Maggie Keswick Jencks.
In 1988, Maggie got from his mother inherited the estate Portrack House with a large enough piece of land - 16 hectares. It was the most commonly referred to: vegetables, berries, greenhouse with a collection of begonias. But Maggie offered to split the park in this area, like no one else in the world.
Mounds "The Serpent and the Snail"
The Black Hole
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Even at the design stage there was an idea to play on this piece of land the universe in miniature. Through the garden forms, landscapes, sculptures Charles and Maggie decided to show not only the beauty of the universe, but its laws, paradoxes, its birth and evolution of development.
The ladder of evolution of
Each object of the garden there is an idea that everything in the universe develops according to its stages. This can be seen in the unusual landscape reliefs, formed of several levels.
Helix DNA
A special place in the universe and in the garden takes a spiral. Charles Jencks sees her expression everywhere in scathing hurricanes dance in the DNA chain, brain nerve impulses, and even in the drain hole of the tub.
Garden DNA and the human senses
In the heart of the garden is a spiral sculpture, to which are all the paths and alleys. But to get to it, so to grasp the essence of the universe, will have to try.
In short, just take a walk through the garden will not work on it, and a garden of reflection. However, those who are tired of solving a rebus can relax and forget for a short while in the "gazebo meaninglessness."
This garden is privately owned by Charles Jenks, but for a few days a year it opens its doors to all comers, and sometimes he gives tours.
Garden brings real benefits - all the money Charles lists the charity fund named after his wife Maggie Keswick Jencks. The Fund provides assistance to cancer patients and has been created in memory of Maggie, who died from cancer in 1995
So that all reflections in the garden are not only for the benefit of themselves, but also for others.