SURPRISE GARDENS 



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mental pots should be carefully chosen to go well with 

 them and with the colour of the house. 



This is another point which needs thought in planning 

 surprise gardens. It is as important to choose the right 

 colour for a particular garden as it is to lead on from soft 

 coloured gardens to the increased strength and brilliancy 

 of hue in the ones we pass to later. A very restful 

 garden, designed by a past student of Glynde College, is 

 composed entirely of grey, blue, and green. It is beside 

 a lake. A small stone sundial, a few paved walks, grey 

 stone bird-baths, and simple garden seats, are the only 

 ornaments. It is not a very sunny garden, and so the 

 soft colours of ceonothus, rosemary, lavender, provide a 

 restful background to the bright blues of salvias and 

 delphiniums. Thus it forms a suitable one from which 

 to start upon the tour of inspection, for gayer, more 

 sparkling flower gems glisten in other surprise gardens 

 that it leads to. 



In this way we see what scope surprise gardens give to 

 the imagination, and how we can wander through varying 

 scenes, by rose-arch, sunk garden, crushing sweet-smelling 

 thyme and burnet beneath our feet, back to the formal 

 terrace that we started from. 



