Heaven is a Garden

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Jan Johnsen. Heaven is a Garden

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PRAISE for Heaven is a Garden

“Jan Johnsen touches my soul with her insights on gardens, as well as on living life. You’ll be touched too as she teaches you how to create a divine, unhurried landscape with simplicity, sanctuary and delight.”

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A Garden in Tune with the Four Directions

In this age of GPS navigation, the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West may seem nothing more than useful aspects of highway signs. But in ages past, the “Four Winds,” as the directions were called, were an important consideration when laying out buildings, towns and gardens. For example, the main shopping road of ancient Roman towns was called the cardo, or heart, and always ran in a north/south direction. This tenet of town planning can still be seen in New York’s Fifth Avenue and other prominent avenues of older cities.

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