Garden Design and Architects' Gardens; Two Reviews, Illustrated, to Show, by Actual Examples from British Gardens, That Clipping and Aligning (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The True Landscape Mr. Blomfield writes nonsense, and then attributes it to me? that is to say, we go to Claude, and having saturated our minds with his rocks and trees, we return to Nature and try to worry her into a resemblance to Claude. I am never concerned with Claude, but seek the best expression I can secure of our beautiful English real landscapes, which are far finer than Claude's. At least I never saw any painted landscape like them?say that from the Chestnut Walk at Shrubland, looking over the lovely Suffolk country. That is the precious heritage we have to keep. And that is where simple and pictuesquegardening will help us by making the garden a beautiful foreground for the true landscape, instead of cutting it off with a " high wall" or anything else that is ugly and needless. The lawns are not to be left in broad expanse, but to have Pampas Grasses, foreign shrubs, etc., dotted about on the surface. / have fought for years against the lawn-destruction by the terrace-builders and bedding-out gardeners! But how are we to have our lawns in " broad expanse " if we build a high wall near the house to cut off even the possibility of a lawn ? This has been done in too many cases to the ruin of all good effect and repose, often to shut out as good landscapes as ever were painted ! There are flagrant cases in point to be found in private gardens in the suburbs of London. There is much bad and ignorant landscape work as there is bad building everywhere, but errors in that way aremore easily removed than mistakes in costly and aimless work in brick and stone. At Coombe Cottage, when I first saw its useless terrace wall shutting out the beautiful valley view from the living rooms, I spoke of the error that had been made, but the owner thought that, as it had cost...