The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



alluring possibilities. 



The sunflower motive : My own little garden is 

 dominated by its sunflowers. This is partly a rem- 

 iniscence of Kansas, and doubtless also partly an 

 expression of my own weedy philosophy. What- 

 ever the primary reason for having those sunflow- 

 ers there no one could ever think of that garden 

 without its sunflowers. It has other things in it 

 — plenty of them, — but it is essentially a sunflower 

 garden, — it is dominated by the sunflower motive. 



The hollyhock motive: In Vermont, on the 

 shores of Lake Champlain, I know a fine substan- 

 tial dignified old-fashioned stone farmhouse. About 

 it is a comfortable lawn space set off by a low picket 

 fence from the encroachments of the farmyard. 

 Along the foundations of this comfortable old house 

 and also close up against the picket fence runs a 

 border of hollyhocks. There may or may not be 

 other things growing in that garden — I don't re- 

 member. To me it is always a garden of holly- 

 hocks. 



The river motive : Wherever a river threads its 

 way through a landscape it is pretty sure to carry 



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