Let's make a brake in my sweet memories about visit to States and write something I have done today. It was strange to make a last minute decision to go to this conference - 'Garden Style'. Held in Vilnius, Lithuania. It's so bright event for everyone who is related to gardens. It was good for everyone - from simple person, who want to make his garden interesting to true experts and Giants of landscape architecture in Lithuania. I am in big honor to listen all presentations and note some things. But something influence me to write a blog and share a little bit of what was said for all of us. Do not expect all secrets. Only those who go there can keep everything what saw, heard and feel. Get some new information these times is easy, but to get a good one, with all focal points is hard. So this conference opened my eyes and give more positive feelings about landscape architecture future in Lithuania.
Organizer of this great event was - Lina Liubertaitė. Head of wonderful courses for landscape architecture - 'Yellow Wheelbarrow' (Geltonas Karutis). Intention of this conference is to open doors for new things. Let people to make an experiments in gardens without any restrictions and with your own way.
Rasa Laurinaviečienė - who was translator in this conference noted, that it's good to catch some new ideas. But it is bad to copy and paste them to your own garden. In this way progress just stop. You can never catch a fresh winds of garden design just copying. While you copy and paste, others start working with other things. So that was a powerful message for me and I believe, this will influence my life a lot. I see that information I got in university is just basic academic works. But actual feeling of this field will came when I start to work with personally.
Vittorio Peretto - Landscape architect from Italy. He get inspiration from music. It show his presentation - 'Landscape of Music'. Brilliant presentation about how related is music and landscape architecture. "Garden is like a symphony". Words that has a great message. That is simple way to work with it. Make it special and get all inspiration from music. Simple - but brilliant.
One of examples was his project with wooden violins made from special wood got from old poles in Venice used for base. That make a strong detail with history and special feature to garden.
Asta Grabauskienė - Landscape architect from Vilnius, Lithuania. She give us presentation about how shape of lawn can change your garden. She show examples of shapes and give information where to use it and what you get if you do it in your garden. All that information was like a music to my ears. We should heard this in university. But I think better later, than never. So now I know that experimenting with shapes is fun. And each form can give a dramatic look to your garden. Same space can be longer, shorter or interesting to explore.
Ingė Auželienė - garden designer. Give a presentation about vegetables in our garden. How to make an esthetic, but edible garden. Lithuanians are used to have only practical things in garden for a long time. And now, in new times old fashioned vegetable field is not accepted. People want a relaxing spaces. But she give an examples and ideas, that everything can be mixed with perennials in borders, placed in pots. Everything is necessary and can fit in garden, you only have to found a right spot in garden and always have it as close to your home as you can. Because your kid never go to pick some berries from other part of your property. That is just a few ideas, that she gave to us.
Carrie Preston (right) - Garden designer, Holland. Rasa Laurinavičienė - translator (left). Presentation "From Global Tendencies to Your Own Design". This was the most powerful presentation that I have heard and seen in my life. Carrie show us a lot of great examples of gardens. Give us a bomb of inspiration. Rasa translated her presentation to Lithuanian language and add some extra details which we should know. Even Carrie keep say, that she make her presentation shorter, translator still keep adding a new things. And a funny situation was when C.Preston say, that she will go in chop, Rasa translated and added some extra facts about specific garden feature when using Zinnia's in big quantities. So Carrie started to laugh and ask why she have to say about Zinnia's when we have a limited time. That was so nice. Simple and not arrogant persons. Giants of this conference show the best experience and give us a lot of resource to make our own research to these gardens. Personally, I was shocked to hear all that information so easily. Just go to garden and make few combinations. Carrie show various examples and let us to know, that we can always try and make something special without looking in others. You never know how it's going to be later. I noted several great lines of thinking that I want to share: "It's a feeling, not a view of actual nature, illusion of nature give a great feelings", "They feel like they are in nature and that is the most important". That give a message, that you have to create a garden for feelings not for copy of nature. Some people are very strict to that. They want to make everything the same. Actual copy. Well, if that make them feel better, then it is good. But I noticed, it is all about feelings. What garden make for you. You pick style not because it is popular - it's because it is close to you and you can feel very good in that environment. All the ecological ways are just a bonus to project. Aspects for public spaces are a way more deeper. I living in personal gardens and places that are in touch with peoples. To create a garden look like easy task. But you can see it is long way to learn everything to start making it and even start to break the rules.
I can say, that I am fortunate about my meeting with Carrie. During coffee break I went to hall and seen her. Start conversation and get to know her even better. I am pleased to talk with people who I want to follow. I like to surround myself with people, I want to be. Following their steps I can build something my own. As I am a young I love breaking rules. But at first I have to master what is available and then start creating something my own. Trying, making mistakes and change things give a progress in all fields. Not an exception with garden design.
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