Smaller plants justify smaller paths, inviting close scrutiny. The balance at the Woodland Park Rose Garden is very good, with wide paths traveling through large beds, well defined by box hedges and beefed up with sculpted trees and rose standards. The concept of chi, or energy, is a point where controversy seems to arise. In greatly simplified terms, chi is lifeforce. Every living thing contains a spark that identifies it as alive rather than inert.
Western thought acknowledges that beings receive that spark at conception, and lose it at death.
But eastern thought goes further to accept that chi is all around us. It is fluid, like air or water. It can ebb and flow within the living being. It can be shared. And just like air or water, too much chi is not a good thing.