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Gravel - Landscape Summertime photograph of a classic gravel landscaping in a backyard with partial sun.
I have been reading about the history of landscape architecture and apparently there was this theory that humans have an inherent, innate preference for "savanna-like" open grassy environments with scattered trees due to our evolutionary past, with the reasoning that open grassy understories allow us to see predators coming. And for some reason everyone just accepted it as the truth for decades.
And then this lady Margaret Grose in a book called Constructed Ecologies is like "wait, why did we accept this as the truth for decades? How do we know this is innate and not a cultural preference ingrained by European style landscaping? Did the human species actually evolve in mostly savanna-type landscapes, or did we just randomly decide that because we associate Africa with savannas? Throughout millions of years of recent evolutionary history we've been in a shit ton of different environments because there were a bunch of ice ages. Also African savanna grasses get like 4 meters tall and predators can hide just fine in that."
and it's like wow when you put it that way it's kinda stupid that people decided this idea was true for no reason
Design concepts for a sizable formal gravel backyard garden in the summer.
Design ideas for a large traditional partial sun backyard gravel formal garden in summer.