The livable house, its garden . Diagram illustrating plantingin the bend of a drive gram, with low growing stuffin front to emphasize the bay,and higher growing things be-hind. Correspondingly, thepoint on the opposite sidemight be marked by highshrubs, although observanceof the demands of automobil-ists who must be able to seealong the entire length of adrive, is fast leveling off allborder is a purely sentimen- tal reason for making the planting in a bend high, to which I, whodo not mind driving slowly along a curving road, am inclined tocling, and that is the pleasure of not
The livable house, its garden . Diagram illustrating plantingin the bend of a drive gram, with low growing stuffin front to emphasize the bay,and higher growing things be-hind. Correspondingly, thepoint on the opposite sidemight be marked by highshrubs, although observanceof the demands of automobil-ists who must be able to seealong the entire length of adrive, is fast leveling off allborder is a purely sentimen- tal reason for making the planting in a bend high, to which I, whodo not mind driving slowly along a curving road, am inclined tocling, and that is the pleasure of not knowing what lies just always has its charm, and I w^ould rather be surprised bycoming out of a wood suddenly onto a green stretch of lawn thanknow all along that presently we shall be running at the edge ofthe green velvet strip, which I can see across the low bushes. [66] G a n. A CURVING PATH WELL PLANTED Garden of Mr. Edward E. Sprague, at Flushing, LongIsland. Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect [67] The Livable House Screen planting, the fourth kind of general planting, may con-sist of irregular borders of shrubs and trees, or of hedges. Thelatter are usually regarded as the logical means of screening aservice drive, or laundry yard, or unneighborly nuisance. Theyare the most obvious form of screen, the form most often used,and in some ways the least effective, for their purpose is generallyas apparent as that of a trellis or wall would be. Like thesethey need planting outside to tie them into the general land-scape. Any kind of clipped hedge is, of course, slower in attainingheight than plants which are allowed to grow unchecked by thepruning shears. It follows that a free-growing border will screenfaster and more effectively than a hedge. But the most validreason for giving any irregular planting preference is that itcan be made a part of the landscap
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