Ivydene Gardens Garden Design: Garden Design Work-flow Diagram indicating which pages in this website help with each respective section:- |
Garden Design Pages Private Garden Design Introduction. Garden Design Site Map with Parallel Thinking not
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When you buy a house, you would not paint your toilet in a Gaugin Style with many colours without thinking that you wanted Magnolia paint colour in the rest of the house, because it would look out of place. This design process hopefully persuades you to think as carefully about your use and enjoyment of the garden as you do about your lounge, kitchen and bedroom and prepare plans that will be acceptable to the whole family. The most important design consideration is who and how long per week is maintenance on the garden going to be done. One hour-garden by Joanna Smith book helps in this part of the design process. |
If you decide that you would like to redesign all or only a part of your garden then ----->
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It might be useful to read the following pages in this Design Topic: This page followed by these:- | |
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You may decide to simply add more plants to your existing beds like plants to Rock Gardens using | |
Then, you can decide on the Garden Style that you wish to use in your garden, so these pages in this Design Topic may help: The Design Itself Additional Garden Design Concepts have been written using the beds at Wisley to provide examples:- Using the Mixed Border, Jubilee Rose Garden and Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden in the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Garden at Wisley for examples, I am still creating The Mixed Borders Garden Design Topic . The Mixed Borders Garden Design topic may help you in planning your garden, especially if you decide to show your garden to the public - i.e Make plant labels visible in your garden to aid your own plant sales. as well as from | |
In choosing your style, there are other considerations to take into account like If you suffer from hay fever, then bee-pollinated plants and very little grass would be useful | |
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Then, view these Garden Design Pages in this order or any order you want
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choosing 1 of these different Plant selection Methods:-
1. Choose a plant from 1 of 53 flower colours in the Colour Wheel Gallery.
2. Choose a plant from 1 of 12 flower colours in each month of the year from 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery.
3. Choose a plant from 1 of 6 flower colours per month for each type of plant:- Aquatic
4. Choose a plant from its Flower Shape:- Shape, Form
5. Choose a plant from its foliage:- Bamboo
6. There are 6 Plant Selection Levels including Bee Pollinated Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers in
7. Your chosen Garden Style then changes your Plant Selection Process:- Garden Style I have moved on in March 2016 to create the Garden Style and the other design galleries for the New Plant Selection Process number 7. |
Bee-Pollinated Plants information in this website using the Bee-Pollinated Bloom in Month Colour Wheel Gallery:- Besides the plants in the
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Parallel Thinking not Adversarial Thinking to find the ‘Way Forward’
Universities are obsessed with history, scholarship and analysis. These do have their value and their place. But according to Professor Edward de Bono, there should be equal emphasis on constructive thinking, on creative thinking and on design thinking. Knowledge is not enough. Value creation needs a different sort of thinking. So, Edward de Bono’s book ‘Why so Stupid? How the human race has never really learned to think’, needs to be read not in a defensive, adversarial or critical frame of mind but in an effort to get something from it. ………………………………………………. Our traditional thinking is concerned with: ‘What is’ It is not good at all at designing: ‘What can be’ The difference is between ‘judgement’ and ‘design’. ……………………………………………… Parallel thinkingArgument is intended to give a defined end point: one party has won and the other has lost. Argument is a combat in words rather than with swords.
Four people are standing around a chateau. Each one insists that the side he or she faces is the best side. They argue (by mobile phone). In the end they all join up and walk around the building so each person is now seeing all the sides. Such behaviour leads directly to the concept of "parallel thinking".
The big difference between parallel thinking and adversarial thinking (argument) is that at any moment everyone is thinking in parallel. Everyone is thinking and looking in the same direction. The directions then change so all aspects of the matter are eventually covered. The whole point of parallel thinking is that everyone is thinking about the subject matter not about what the other person has said. For this reason there is a thorough exploration of the subject and, usually, some agreed way forward at the end. If everyone were to think and to look in the same direction there would need to be some clearly indicated direction. This direction is provided by the symbolic ‘Six Hats’. At any one moment everyone is wearing, metaphorically, one of the six hats. So everyone ends up thinking in the same direction.
The White Hat symbolises ‘information’. Think of white and paper. Under the White Hat everyone is focusing on information.
If there is disagreement, there is no argument. Both differing versions are recorded.
The Red Hat is for emotions, feelings and intuition. Think red and fire and warmth. Under the Red Hat everyone has permission to put forward his or her emotions, feelings and intuition without having to explain or justify these. They exist in a person and so can be put forward. Before the first election in South Africa they asked Professor Edward de Bono to teach the method to the heads of the Peace Accord Committees. They then chose to use the Red Hat as the first hat in a meeting: to allow everyone to express his or her feelings right at the beginning.
There are many doubts…
The Black Hat is for thinking that is cautious, careful and critical. Think of black and a judge’s robes. Under the Black Hat we think of the ‘downside’; why something may not work; what he potential problems might be. This is the ‘critical’ hat.
Under the Black Hat, thinkers are encouraged to be as cautious and negative as possible. This fits both the natural behaviour of the brain and also a critical thinking culture. The Black Hat is an excellent hat and probably the most important of the hats. It is also the basis of Western thinking culture. But it can be over-used by those who believe it is enough to be critical.
The Yellow Hat is for the ‘logical positive’. Under the Yellow Hat we look for the values and benefits. We look to see how something can be done. All of this does have to be reasonable – it is not the speculation of creativity. In all constructive thinking it is important to develop ‘value sensitivity’. We have a natural ‘danger sensitivity’ but we have to develop ‘value sensitivity’.
The Yellow Hat is much harder and much less ‘natural’ than the Black Hat.
The Green Hat is the hat of creativity and energy. Think ‘green’ and vegetation and growth. Under the Green Hat everyone present at the meeting makes a creative effort. This is the time and place for creativity. Under the Green Hat we look for fresh ideas, alternatives, modifications of an idea, possibilities, etc.
In ordinary thinking the critical mode is available at every moment. Under the Green Hat it is formally excluded.
The last hat is the Blue Hat. Think blue and sky and overview. The Blue Hat organises the thinking. The Blue Hat decides on the focus. The Blue Hat decides the sequence of hats to be used. The Blue Hat enforces the discipline of the hats. The Blue Hat puts together outcomes, solutions, designs, next steps, etc.
This surprisingly simple framework can be very powerful. Meeting times can be reduced to one quarter or even one tenth of their usual time. What is most important is that each thinker is challenged to use his or her experience, information and ‘brain power’. It is totally different from ‘clever case making’. The hats may be used individually to request a type of thinking. A manager (parent) might suggest an idea. Those around would point out the dangers and why the idea might not work. The manager (parent) would listen and then say’ that is the great Black Hat thinking, now I would like the Yellow Hat’. Normally if someone is against an idea that person is not going to put forward the virtues of the idea. But with Six Hats thinking, the person is challenged to do exactly this. What is particularly interesting about the Six Hats method is that once the subject has been thoroughly explored the ‘way forward’ often becomes obvious to everyone (family or work colleagues) at the meeting. It is no longer a matter of arguing one proposal against another, or of voting. |
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Flower Perfume Group:- |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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Topic - Bulb Climber in |
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You know its Each plant in each WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE will have a link to:- |
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Plant Colour Wheel Uses Uses of Bedding |
Nursery of Nursery of Damage by Plants in Chilham Village - Pages Pavements of Funchal, Madeira Identity of Plants Ron and Christine Foord - 1036 photos only inserted so far - Garden Flowers - Start Page of each Gallery |
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