While we are watching for intellectual purposes, I definitely also appreciate the British Garden Representation going on in Blumineck’s videos. This is 100% unfiltered British Garden and I love that. I love the little grass lawn that takes such a beating. I love the native hedge plants that are probably unexpectedly old. I love the “borrowed view” effect in which all the neighborhood trees contribute to the framing and layering of the garden. You get a small humble piece of land sufficient to meet your basic needs and you can do what you like with it: hold it in your two hands and care for it in some bewilderment before passing it to the next owner. There is a lot going on in it. Always more trees than you’d expect. Always more animals. This garden, I believe, is at the bare minimum humming with sparrows at all times. Some might look and see plain or humble, and many don’t look at all, but it’s because they don’t understand! It’s quietly a portrait of a happy household, it is sweet and sufficient. It’s a hobby space. It’s a mirror behind the archer, showing us the back of his soul (which is rather wholesome and well-brought-up.) It’s a picture frame. You normally look at the picture, but the frame tells you something too. It’s an elderly, well cared for working dog of gardens. If it was in a show I would give it a prize.
Granted, Blumineck’s distinctive pylon is a bit unusual for the type, but I admire and respect it all the more.
I love this hardworking little garden. It’s a character in these films, in its own right, to me. Little fenced family gardens are an entire genre to me. I love them so much. This one is so good.
