The Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks, Frances Lincoln, £35, ISBN 0711222169 Reviewed by Elizabeth Sourbut
DESIGNER Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick had a vision of their garden as a microcosm of the multiverse. Gardens are shaped and cultivated spaces after all, created to stimulate the senses and encourage reflection on the natural world. Beginning in 1988 they worked to mould the gardens at Portrack in southern Scotland into a new kind of formal garden, drawing inspiration from the sciences of complexity and cosmology. They shaped the land into lakes and mounds that twist back on…
