Gardens in the wilderness
Visualize this lush clump of Freycinetia in your garden or a botanical garden. This photo was taken from Mt. Palali on Nueva Vizcaya. Anyone who loves both mountaineering and gardening surely would have been stopped in his tracks by scenes that are just so perfect that transporting that very same setting on one's garden seems to be the only way to achieve that look that resides in every gardener's heads- but so difficult to recreate, let alone elucidate. Forests are not a wild tangle of an impenetrable jungle as one would be inclined to think. Amidst that diversity where one plant competes against another for space and light is an often invisible master plan that dictates where a plant or a rock should be- a structured chaos if you will. And if you just keep still for a while and look intently around you, you may see hints of that grand design. "I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven...