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Q : Who is your preferent creative person ?
A : Roberto Burle Marx . He was a puma , musician , sculptor , garden designer , and life-style creative person . A neat brainchild .
Q : What node request do you most dread ?
A : Topiary . I wo n’t do it .
The dining coiffe by Henry Hall Designs continues the theme of strong horizontal line of products , which are used throughout the garden . light on the arbour is by LED Starbrite . exposure by : Jon Whittle . SEE MORE photograph OF THIS GARDEN .
Q : Who or what inspire you to go into landscape painting figure ?
A : Love of nature and being out of doors .
Q : How important are trends to your work?A : tendency which discover newfangled technology and advancement of existing technology are worth paying attention to . Other than that I am for the timeless .
Q : Lawns - for or against ?
A : Lawns have their place as spacial definers , work area , and " lenient terrace " for entertain . They should not be used in an environment that is desiccate or semi - arid . They should be minimum and are generally a painfulness . I wish to use other mowable or genetically low plants for the majority of an heart-to-heart expanse of a garden .
Q : Name one plant that you think should be more wide used .
A : Hemp for newspaper publisher , etc ? .
Q : Where do you go to watch over multitude ?
A : New York or any beach .
Q : Which architect , living or dead , would you most wish to work with ?
A : Architect , there are many of them . I ’m sympathetic to the theme of architecture that expresses itself through the creation of appropriately illuminated space using rude lighter ; place which reach out to and integrate the natural or exterior surround . Architecture that expresses and utilizes the most sophisticated technology of the contemporaneous age or civilization . computer architecture that acknowledges human race ’s impact on the great planet dry land . Our home . That aver the designer , poet , landscape painting architect , Luis Barragan , endeavour for all of the above . Simplicity to me is not boring but a finish .
Q : Which modern-day architect , in any field , do you regain most interesting ?
A : Calatrava ’s bridge designs are refined and refined . There are many others . My chapeau ’s off to any designer who wins the fight to create unique , personal , sensitive solutions to man ’s build environment .
Q : What is your favorite flick - for the scenery ?
A : The Mission shoot at Foz Iguasu , or perhaps , yes Greystroke , I guess it was ? that Tarzan picture show . Any movie which highlights one of nature ’s unbelievable born system , woodland , meadow , lake , sea , quite a little , desert , jungle , etc ? .
The garden at Golden Rock Inn is significant both for its groundbreaking design and diverse , original choice of flora . Phase one of its creation included more than 150 dissimilar genera of plants . At last count , there were some 20 metal money of palm , including the rarefied old man palm ( Coccothrinax crinita ) with its hairy , Cousin Itt - like tree trunk and black stiletto heel , which is available only at sure glasshouse for a hefty price . Another , the talipot palm thenar , aboriginal to India , is one of the great in the world . The garden ’s 35 - plus types of trees include the baobab , the red silk cotton tree with its deep deep red flowers , the powder powderpuff Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and the aptly named sausage tree . exposure by : Marion Brenner . Left : The entrance to Golden Rock Inn is purposely allow junglelike and verdant . SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THIS GARDEN .
About Raymond Jungles :
Mr. Jungles play in the landscape nursery trade wind as a student in high school day in Ohio . Upon graduation exercise he moved to Florida where he developed an stake in designing and computer architecture and adjudicate to pursue the degree of Landscape Architecture . One of his earliest influence was the Mexican original Luis Barragan .
Raymond later became acquainted with the oeuvre of the outstanding Roberto Burle Marx through the Tropical Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx , as a student at the University of Florida . Mr. Marx came to lecture there in 1979 , they adjoin , and a friendship / mentorship afterward ensued .
Raymond graduate from the University of Florida with mellow honors in 1981 and begin his own design / build pattern , and he founded Raymond Jungles , contain in 1983 . Raymond credits Burle Marx with generally imparting much perceptivity and inspiration while reviewing design and natter his garden in Miami . Mr. Marx spread out his own estate to Raymond , and led him through many of his task throughout Brazil . Burle Marx , honored Raymond by asking him to contrive and construct the columnar bromeliad carving , which appear in his Museum of Modern Art , expo in New York .
Mr. Jungles primarily design secret gardens , residential in nature , but has worked on legion communities and resort hotel . Most of his oeuvre is in Florida and the Caribbean region . He presently has projects in the invention or building phase in Florida , Antigua , Grenada and Panama . Botanical garden are a dearie of Mr. Jungles , who has done much study at Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami , and of late completed the master design for the Key West Botanical Garden . He frequently remonstrate at garden and flora society use , and has twice been selected as a phallus of the Design Awards Jury for the Broward County , Florida , American Institute of Architects fellowship . Mr. Jungles has pull ahead seventeen Design Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects , in which ten of them were for the Award of Excellence . The University of Florida named him its Most Distinguished Alumni in 2000 . His Florida match have nominated him for Fellowship in the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2002 and 2003 . The Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects latterly honored him as the Landscape Architect of the yr .
Projects by Mr. Jungles have been featured in over fifteen books . profile of him have look on the front cover in the New York Times , Thursday Design section , Garden Design Journal , Traditional Homes magazine and Southern Accents magazine , as well as more than 26 internal and international publication .
More information can be can be see by visiting his website atraymondjungles.com .
