Look at the landscape in front of you. Study the plants, trees and characteristics that make up its composition. Consider your favorite flora. Note what appeals to you about a particular tree or plant. Think about what that thing means to you.
Look again at the landscape and imagine it in the past with fewer or smaller plants and trees. Imagine the decisions made in the care and creation of the landscape that led to its present state. Consider what the landscape might look like without your favorite tree or plant. What if that species were entirely absent from the landscape?
Imagine a plan for the future of the landscape. Consider the lifecycle of the trees and plants. Determine which trees and plants will continue to grow in the landscape and how they will mature. Decide which plants and trees will die and disappear. Which ones will be replanted and continue anew but differently.
Take this imaginary future of the landscape and compose it in some form that can be shared with fellow gardeners and landscapers as part of a proposition of possibility for the landscape.
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