Do you? Well, I like some of his books and ideas but I can't follow him when he is insulting "the Germans" (they don't exist just "the" Americans") as an "ecocentric culture" (how could "ecocentric" even become an insult in times of climate change?) who "like weeds" and then, just right after, his PhD students as "groupies"... I mean, I get the jokes - but I don't like them. His approach to only think about maintenance in economic terms - just as if capitalism had a word to say on the art of gardening - is an other misconception to me. Of course, other professors like Casisan Schmidt have started this and Hitchmough just develops it - but that's why we can only entitle his work as "research" and not as an actual art form. Put differently, Piet Oudolf still remains the master of the perennial garden and of the art of gardening. University professors just don't seem to get this and I am a researcher by myself. They do research on economic aspects and that's it. There is nothing to get excited about for me.
love James Hitchmough
Do you? Well, I like some of his books and ideas but I can't follow him when he is insulting "the Germans" (they don't exist just "the" Americans") as an "ecocentric culture" (how could "ecocentric" even become an insult in times of climate change?) who "like weeds" and then, just right after, his PhD students as "groupies"... I mean, I get the jokes - but I don't like them.
His approach to only think about maintenance in economic terms - just as if capitalism had a word to say on the art of gardening - is an other misconception to me. Of course, other professors like Casisan Schmidt have started this and Hitchmough just develops it - but that's why we can only entitle his work as "research" and not as an actual art form. Put differently, Piet Oudolf still remains the master of the perennial garden and of the art of gardening. University professors just don't seem to get this and I am a researcher by myself. They do research on economic aspects and that's it. There is nothing to get excited about for me.
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