A Modern Garden of Contemplative Ease

Outline: A Modern Garden of Contemplative Ease Carried out by Cambium Inc., the ‘Modern Garden of Contemplative Ease’ is a fantastic site alteration located in the beautiful location of Bellevue. Designed as a restful retreat from the restlessness of city living, this garden integrates the modernism of form and the artistic features of nature to furnish an atmosphere suitable to experience relaxation and thought. The whole place is filled by the choice of the native flowering plants of the Pacific Northwest, and chief among these are the ferns, ornamental grasses, in season bloomers, that will interest the beholder all the rest of the year. The materials of construction which serve either one or the other of the forms of this garden, are environmentally appropriate, as for instance, in the use of the stone for the walks, (this is locally procured) or for those raised beds, in which herbs are grown. The woods are all ethically ground and gathered. A very difficult part of the problem of course, we were to encounter, was that of the uneven character of the land. They all made the plans for the new gardens and they devised their special tiered elevation for success in shedding rain without losing the picturesque vales and lawns for thought and rest. A pool of water was put to suffice for the brooks and gurgling springs they sought for and gave forth to the sound of nature. The seating space is thus completed and formed, allowing for attractive places to sit that are inviting and open so that one forgets one's surroundings with ease. The final result is a most satisfying landscape, breath taking in character, one of simplicity and of peace, so that to all they afford escape to get rest and hold converse with their own thoughts. The owners are most delighted, the results in greater assurance of the continuous use of always ease with which it is completed. The scenery obtained is in unity with the rest of the buildings, which one ever praised, and Cambium Inc., was complimented for the manufactural extent of the concentrates and their common character. This shows to what a high and worthy species we have reached in the upper grade of work we do in building our landscape to appropriate that which is conducive to delight in the artistic feeling and peace that gathers on the surface to meet the action of nature the ease of movement with the surrounding land in the thing it impresses as naturally providing for the wholesomeness of community long known and prosperous countries as Ballard Heights, Beacon Hill, Clyde Hill, and Hunts Point.