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How to Layout Your Garden
How do you start setting up your garden? To start, you should begin laying out a flower garden by making up your mind not as to the kind that you want but the kind that you ought to have. Although this sounds heart-breaking, it is not so bad after all; it is only a matter of adjusting the mental attitude. If you really want a certain garden type and don't mind breaking the rules, then by all means go ahead with your dreams!
Of course, the kind of garden that you ought to have is the one that is best in the circumstances. In the first place, as has already been said, it should bear a relationship to the house. This does not mean that a house wholly impossible, or only halfway bad, ought to have those qualities duplicated in the garden; nothing could be more senseless than that. It does mean that there should be a
certain harmony, if not actual correspondence, of character. True, there might easily be the sort of planning that would so isolate the garden as to shut it out completely from any picture of the house. This would satisfy the passerby, and your neighbor; but how about you? Do you not want to feel that there is a certain homogeneity of atmosphere? Well, you ought to if you do not. If the house is not right architecturally, strive to conceal its defects by beginning the garden there, so to speak. Sometimes a single vine or a few shrubs
or evergreens will chasten architecture wonderfully, and at the same time serve to bridge the house with the garden.
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An Italian villa would better have an Italian garden, a Georgian house a formal design of the English type, a rambling farmhouse an old-fashioned layout of no set form, a house built on rocky ground a rock garden, and so on. This is speaking broadly; in actual practice, so far as the average place of moderate size is concerned, the idea is not so much a garden that is technically accurate
for its class as one that in its lines, or some distinguishing feature, suggests that class. Nor, as
has previously been said, is there any need of its going by this, that or the other name; it may
have a dominant Italian note in the broad view, as seen with the house, but at close range reveal
such a variety of adapted touches that it can be called only the garden.
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