Catherine Vo-Nguyen Human Nature Boesch Landscape Project: Rose Garden The Rose Garden literally had no roses

since it is winter time and the roses are dormant. However seeing rows and rows of the branches and stems stripped of gorgeous vivid budding roses, I got to see a different side of gardens in a sense of just flowers or produce and the plant being the main attraction. The garden is designed with layers; a flat rectangular area of rows of roses, and then steps leading you down to another section of the same thing. About 3-5 layers like this, stepping down further to another patch of a mini rose garden contributing to the whole. Everything was very symmetrical and shape-wise all very vertical or horizontal, not much other shapes. My eyes were drawn up and down and forward because of the design of that. This would better allow visitors to view the roses and see the aisles of bright roses from far away. My interpretation for the ideology of this garden, specifically to during the winter time that I went in, is layers. Since there were no roses, I was forced to look at everything else but the main attraction. This shows the layers of a garden, that there are not just the pretty and colorful things to admire, but its infrastructure and what surrounds the pretty things are unique and interesting to look at on their own too. There are layers within the petals of a rose but also within the entire rose as a whole. So the layers would include, the rose flower, the leaves, the stem, and the thorns. And I think usually that gets lost as we only look at the rose. Going during winter allowed me to see more than what I usually could. And contrast to things being dead in the winter, I was able to see the things that are strong enough to be alive. Another aspect of layers is the physical design of the garden itself; the entire garden escalates by section. Once youre done

observing one area of roses on that layer, you go down to the next one. And I think that by doing that you can see different perspectives because as you walk up or down the sections, the roses will be different by color (I assume) and the view overlooking the whole garden will be too. My collage shows the layers of the garden stacked on top and kind of spirals into the middle, similar to the shape of a rose. It is also jagged and angular in shape to show the ruggedness of the garden that is usually very pretty. The shapes portray the roughness of the branches and thorns. The orbs of the thorns lay on top of the gate of the garden to show the dominance of them at the time that I viewed it, because that was mostly what I saw.