. Practical landscape gardening : the importance of careful planning, locating the house, arrangement of walks and drives, construction of walks and drives, lawns and terraces, how to plant a property, laying out a flower garden, architectural features of the garden, rose gardens and hardy borders, wild gardens and rock gardens, planting plans and planting lists . Landscape gardening. 224 PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Fig. 172.—A dry retaining wall with pockets for plants, where the water feature adds greatly to the scene.—See page 226 most formidable stones come at the base. In some places t
. Practical landscape gardening : the importance of careful planning, locating the house, arrangement of walks and drives, construction of walks and drives, lawns and terraces, how to plant a property, laying out a flower garden, architectural features of the garden, rose gardens and hardy borders, wild gardens and rock gardens, planting plans and planting lists . Landscape gardening. 224 PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Fig. 172.—A dry retaining wall with pockets for plants, where the water feature adds greatly to the scene.—See page 226 most formidable stones come at the base. In some places the at- rangement should be almost perpendicular and in others flattened out to a more gentle slope. In this class of work we are imitating nature just as closely as possible and the boulders must be so arranged as to appear inherent in the soil. SOIL An abundance of good porous soil must be used and well mixed with leaf mold and well rotted manure to a depth of two or three feet. It is almost impossible to establish and grow a good assort- ment of rock plants on many of the so-called rockeries for the reason that the pockets for soil are far too small and devoid of moisture, so that only the very hardiest of drought resisting Alpines can exist. ARR.\NGEMENT OF PLANTS The arrangement of the plants should be in clumps or colonies of one variety, and not of a mixed planting where the strongest grow-. 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 Cridland, Robert B. New York, A. T. De La Mare Company, inc.
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