The Personalization of the Environment with Gardening

Abstract

To know how people personalize their environment with gardening, I conducted in depth, open-ended interviews with a selected sammple of gardeners living at a housing complex in Tokyo. The rusults are:
1. The garden is semipublic space.
2. The difeerences between park and garden are seen in a sence of distance, freedom in activities and design reflexing gardeners personality.
3. The close relationship between a gardener and his/her garden is developed by a process of gardening, everyday care for growing things and plants with aspecial memory.