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172. Garden Growing Wild Problem A garden which grows true to its own laws is not a wilderness, yet not entirely artificial either. Solution Grow grasses, mosses, bushes, flowers, and trees in a way which comes close to the way that they occur in nature: intermingled, without barriers between them, without bare earth, without formal flower beds, and with all the boundaries and edges made in rough stone and brick and wood which become a part of the natural growth. Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein & Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language Introduction to PermacultureThe garden is a riotChef's Table: Jeong Kwan naturefarminggardens