. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Introduction. FIG. XLI.—ANOTHER FORECOURT TREATMENT. A frequent example of waste of effort is where a narrow border at the foot of a house is filled with small plants — annuals or other summer flowers. The border itself is often poorly devised, fussing and dodging in and out among bays and slight projections. It is much better to carry ^ the border straight across, and to fill the spaces next the house with something of sohd and shrubby character, such as laurus- tinus, choisya and escal- lonia, with a planting, in the narrower spac
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Introduction. FIG. XLI.—ANOTHER FORECOURT TREATMENT. A frequent example of waste of effort is where a narrow border at the foot of a house is filled with small plants — annuals or other summer flowers. The border itself is often poorly devised, fussing and dodging in and out among bays and slight projections. It is much better to carry ^ the border straight across, and to fill the spaces next the house with something of sohd and shrubby character, such as laurus- tinus, choisya and escal- lonia, with a planting, in the narrower spaces and towards the path, of smaller shrubs, such as lavender, rosemary, phlomis, the dwarf rhodode ndrons, olearias and hardy fuchsias ; then, if front spaces still need filling there is nothing better than the leaved megaseas stately acanthus in com- bination with the dark- leaved shrubs, and of southernwood and santolina with the grey. The title of this volume, " Gardens for Small Country Houses," needs, perhaps, some explanation, because a few of the pictures reproduced belong obviously to large gardens. Although some of the gardens described in the earlier " monograph " chapters (L to VL) are of fairly large extent, they mark the increasing tendency to be generous in the provision of garden space round country houses which may fairly be called small. We have not attempted to deal with the little plots which belong to little cottages, as they give scarcely any scope for invention or conscious design. Several scores of photographs have been taken specially for the purposes of the book, but it has not been found possible to rely solely on existing small gardens, known to us,, for pictures that would elucidate the points we wished to make. It is fair to claim, however, that no feature has been illustrated which would not be fitting in a small garden when reduced in scale, or which it would be wrong so to reduce. In order that the range of illustration sh
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