Milhnead, Brajnley. 



green and quiet in anticipation of a riot of bright blossom in the main garden 

 on the sunny side of the house. A narrow way, only five feet wide, leads 

 between the house and the western wall to the southern garden. It has been made 

 interesting by the use of some old turned wooden columns that originally formed part 

 of the decorative structure of the wooden ships of the late eighteenth and early 

 nineteenth centuries. Heavy oak beams connect them in pairs across the path, which 

 is paved, partly with the local Bargate stone and partly with a "pitching" of the 

 black ironstones found in the district. A vine planted at the end will in time roof 

 the whole. The garden front of the house, facing south a little east, has a wistaria 

 growing strongly, with good prospect of covering as much of the front as can be allowed, 



FIG. 3. PLANTING OF RETAINING WALL AND BORDER. — POINT OF VIEW 



PLAN (fig. 4) AND PLANTING PLAN (fIG. 2). 



ON GENERAL 



while for the further furnishing of the narrow border at the house foot there are 

 escallonia, choisya, rosemary, lavender and iris stylosa. 



The garden ground, being in the form of a long strip, the task of the designer 

 was the judicious management of each succeeding le^'el, so that each should have some 

 individuality and distinctive interest, and yet that there should be a comfortable sense 

 of general cohesion. From the wide path in front of the house the ground begins 

 to fall— only a little at first ; three steps down are enough. A dwarf dry wall of 

 Bargate stone retains the upper path with its border next the house, and another at 

 the top of the wall ; the latter is planted as a rosemary hedge, sweet to the touch 



