Victory Gardens

"Unless a landscape is invested with a sense of mystery ..." (Brett Weston)

I first encountered the Belmont Victory Gardens looking for a new walk with my family and dog. The idea of tightly packed, fenced community garden plots intrigues me - given I come from the world of large-scale farming, where fields are not measured in yards, but rather in unfenced miles. For me, the Gardens and their environs are a 'micro' landscape. They encourage me to take a more intimate look at our relationship to the land: our tools, its seasons, our cultivation and its produce. 

"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."

Roberto Burle Marx

Landscape Architect and Artist