. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Highmount^ Guildford. 51 curve of high retaining wall also gives shelter from any wind coming from a westerly direction. As will be seen in the general plan (Fig. 56), this encloses a lily tank and encircling rose-beds (Fig. 55) ; the rose-beds are continued as straight borders on either side along the whole length ; the quiet middle green space is broken only by the square tank midway of the whole (Fig. 59). The eastern end has a flight of circular steps with a bold half-round paving at the foot (Fig. 57). This, with the pergola, garden-h
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Highmount^ Guildford. 51 curve of high retaining wall also gives shelter from any wind coming from a westerly direction. As will be seen in the general plan (Fig. 56), this encloses a lily tank and encircling rose-beds (Fig. 55) ; the rose-beds are continued as straight borders on either side along the whole length ; the quiet middle green space is broken only by the square tank midway of the whole (Fig. 59). The eastern end has a flight of circular steps with a bold half-round paving at the foot (Fig. 57). This, with the pergola, garden-houses and their accompanying flights of steps on some of the upper levels, is the work of Mr. Douglas Round. Thus the rose garden is a long, level green parallelogram, quiet and restful, where before was only tumbled and disordered futility. At the western end, back- ing the lily tank and rose- beds, the circular retaining wall is from six to seven feet high. The top is rather boldly planted with yuccas, the great Euphorbia Wulfenii, cistus, tamarisk and tree lupine, and, further back, with tree box, white broom and red cedar (Fig. 58). Barely two years planted, the whole is as yet too immature to show any- thing like the ultimate inten- tion. Facing uphill across the tank one looks up a series of steps, rising flight after flight (Fig. 55). The two lowest, with a landing between, rise to a broad turf path between flower borders, running eastward to the tennis lawn and giving a long green vista of over three hundred feet, with again the feeling of reposeful space and security that had formerly been wanting. The whole length of the rose garden has its six-foot-high retaining wall planted; not planted all over, but enough to display a number of beautiful things in suitable groups, the same plants being carried up on the top of the wall, where there is a space of four feet between the wall top and the hedge of tree box that surrounds the tennis lawn at the eastern end. The same sp
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