Gardens and Parks, where they succeed, strike a delicate balance between the forces of cultivation and nature. The balance is easily upset. Too heavy on cultivation, and all charm and surprise atrophy; too loose with nature, and the focus is lost. The photographs, some of them anyway, try to catch a glimpse of the precarious equilibrium between the two forces.
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