GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



darken the windows. Therefore a lawn or parterre 

 should come first ; and it is to unite either of these formal 

 designs gracefully with the more informal style beyond that 

 a hedge with archways like Fig. 77 is often serviceable. 

 Thus, tall natural trees, if surrounded as they are here by 



slight formality in the 

 shape of a hedge, will 

 not form too sudden 

 a change from the 

 garden immediately 

 round a stately 

 house. 



As a background 

 to an imposing, bril- 

 liantly coloured par- 

 FIG. 77. terre garden, a hedge 



of dark green yew, 



with buttresses of variegated yew, looks well. In large 

 gardens there are so many things which have to be con- 

 cealed if the gardeners are to keep the place well and in 

 good order. Grass-mowings accumulating in large 

 quantities cannot all be turned quickly to utility, leaves 

 have to be swept up hurriedly and put out of the way in 

 heaps for future use. All these must be hidden, and it is 

 for this purpose that hedged-in corners are often required, 

 just as they are needed to surround surprise gardens. It 

 is useful, therefore, for a garden designer to collect many 

 different patterns of hedges and note the best material to 

 use, so that suitable ones may be chosen for each garden. 

 Often a bright bit of colour standing up above a hedge 

 and beyond it is good ; as is the case where round 

 clipped balls upon the top alternate with the Dorothy 

 Perkins weeping roses which are in a garden of mystery 

 beyond. 



Where heavy falls of snow are to be expected, a hedge 



