Considerations for garden visitors
from Tim Richardson
The main thing I would add to your list is something to draw it away from the pseudo/ quasi/ rational approach you are promoting, ie I would suggest people ask themselves:
How does the garden make you feel? What kind of place is it? What sort of atmosphere does it have? This may sound touchy feely but in the phenomenological spirit [see my Psychotopia stuff] this is really what people take away from gardens and remember about them, and I strongly believe that these notions are as legitimate as more strictly evaluative criteria.
Tim Richardson writer, critic.