The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
On the 1st of May we went to visit 'The Garden of Cosmic Speculation' at Portrack House in Dumfries. It opens to the public for one day per year and since we have missed the few years since we found out about it we were determined to make it along this year despite the slight rain.
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Holywood, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
This spectacular garden in Scotland is usually open for one day a year (Sunday before early May Bank Holiday). Based around ideas of fractals and the mathematics of chaos theory. Be amazed as you go up and down the mounds along ‘parallel’ spiral paths. Good for picnicking but refreshments also available. Designed by architect Charles Jencks.
Time
Day visit
Cost
It costs £10 and if driving you have to reserve one of a limited number of car parking spaces.
Essential info
Open day and tickets see (date of opening announced 1 January, ticket sales start on 1 February).
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Charles Jencks
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre 12 hectare sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology.
The garden is private but usually opens on one day each year through Scotland's Gardens Scheme and raises money for Maggie's Centres, a cancer care charity named for Maggie Keswick Jencks, the late wife of Charles Jencks.
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology.
The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It is probably unique among gardens, drawing comparisons with a similarly abstract garden in Scotland, Little Sparta.
Garden of Cosmic Speculation
A lovely walk in a lovely park created by an affluential landscape architect Charles Jencks (please correct me if this information is incorrect). It opens its doors to the public once a year for a single day, and we managed to get in to take some nice footage.
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The impressive glasshouses have plants ranging from the tropical rainforests to scorched desert and the Tropical House plantings are a mixture of familiar and spectacular plants with a waterfall that cascades into a pond filled with Koi Carp. In the cactus house the amazing shapes of cacti are planted among 75 tons of rock. Locally raised plants fill the gardens and a good selection are available at very reasonable prices many of which are cultivated by their gardeners.
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Charles Jencks, Spirals of Time, Parco Portello, Milan
An urban park in northwest Milan with three major landforms, ponds, gardens, and sculpture. Landscape and gardens always carry the imprint of time on their surface and in their growth and decay. For the Parco Portello in Milan the underlying concept is the Ritmo del Tempo, the various rhythms of time that pulsate on earth and in the universe, the basis for music. Thus here the three large mounds convey the three eras of cultural time in Milan - prehistory, history and the future - and the small garden portrays many rhythms from the heartbeat to the four seasons to the major events of the universe. All in all these rhythms of growing and walking are in tight syncopation.
Text by charlesjencks.com.
Charles Alexander Jencks (born June 21, 1939) is an American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture. Jencks has become a leading figure in British landscape architecture. His landscape work is inspired by fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. In Edinburgh, Scotland, he designed the landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with Terry Farrell and Duncan Whatmore of Terry Farrell and Partners. Other works include the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, at Portrack House near Dumfries; Designs for Black Hole Landscape, IUCAA, Pune, India, 2002; Portello Park, Milan 2002-7 (Time Garden 2004-7); Two Cells – Inverness Maggie's Centre, 2003-5; Northumberlandia Landform, 2004; Cells of Life, Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House 2003-2010; Crawick Landforms, 2006- ; Memories of the Future landform and reclamation project, Altdobern, Germany; Wu Chi, Black Hole Oval Terrace, Beijing Olympic Park, 2008; and The Scottish World, St. Ninians, Kelty, 2003, 2010+.
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