. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Gardens for Small Country Houses. 119 CHAPTER XII.—RETAINING WALLS AND THEIR PLANTING. Hillside Sites—Turf Banks—Dry Walling—Grouping in Planted Dry Walls in Sun 'and Shade—Construction—Importance of Ramming—Steps. MANY gardens that are on hillsides are of necessity arranged in a succession of terraces needing retaining waUs to support each succeeding level. In the case of gardens made fifty years ago, before better influences prevailed, the difficulty was got over by making turf banks. But it is very rarely that a turi bank is a desirable
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Gardens for Small Country Houses. 119 CHAPTER XII.—RETAINING WALLS AND THEIR PLANTING. Hillside Sites—Turf Banks—Dry Walling—Grouping in Planted Dry Walls in Sun 'and Shade—Construction—Importance of Ramming—Steps. MANY gardens that are on hillsides are of necessity arranged in a succession of terraces needing retaining waUs to support each succeeding level. In the case of gardens made fifty years ago, before better influences prevailed, the difficulty was got over by making turf banks. But it is very rarely that a turi bank is a desirable feature in a garden ; more often it is distinctly ugly, or, at the best, quite uninteresting, while it is always difficult to mow and burns badly if on a southern slope. Where such a tixrf bank remains, it would, in nearly every case, be better to convert it into a wall; the line of the wall being taken at halfway down the slope and carried to the lower level, the earth excavated at the bottom filling up above. When this is done space is gained both above and below, while the wall itself becomes precious gardening ground ; for if built as a " dry wall," that is to say, with earth joints instead of mortar, the joints, and the chinks in the case of uneven stones, are the happiest possible places for the growing of nearly all alpines, or if the wall. FIG. 155.—THIN SLATE STONES LAID Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London : Published at the offices of Country Life . .. and by George Newnes . .. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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