The Light Garden

Jay Sifford is onto something amazing – creating a " Light Garden " in his Charlotte , North Carolina garden .

" I ’ve recently been work on a raw section of my garden that I call my “ Light Garden ” . Through the macrocosm of this garden I want to make people aware of how wonderful and interchange light intensity level and convention are , so that they do n’t take light for granted . Very few people other than artists and gardeners really notice the beautiful changes in lighter throughout the year . It ’s most beautiful in fall , I mean . The sun rises and hits the life - size sword ballerina sculpture , then moves through the southerly sky , at long last backlighting the sculpture in late afternoon through a forest of very vertical Tree . I have planted lines of Everillo carex that simulate shafts of sunlight get out through the trees , and also dark green to black foliage , such as ‘ Black Scallop ’ genus Ajuga , for contrast and to highlight the demarcation of Sunday and tincture .

I ’ve also instal some stone spheres mixed in with glob - clipped boxwood to model spheres roll down the mound , intersecting the free form mulched path . I late finished an 80 foot long stacked stone wall that is very snakelike . At its end it wraps around the feet of the sculpture after it leads the eye to that place . The wall act as a perimeter on the left side of the way . The right side incorporates negative space and drifts of plants .

This garden is not so much meant to take the air through as to be seen from the windows look out on the forest . This area is full of light , shade , juxtaposition , dissonance , resolution and art … . all of my favorite thing ! "

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