26 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



for the garden is to confine them to a few names alone, 

 for we see so many beautiful things that call for notice. 



Any remarks upon natural garden-hedges lead us to 

 note the varying roadside ones which we meet with in 

 different English counties. All have hidden meaning, 



from the ones that are cut 

 pointed in shape to allow the 

 heavy snowfalls of the Mid- 

 lands to slip gently off them, 

 to the equivalent in Surrey — 

 =■. Ill n ij the wild, sandy banks with 



I yj I 1 their golden spring effect of 



-■ "" ' gorse, followed almost imme- 



diately by the still more lovely 

 pink and purple hues of 

 heather. These trifling differences, so easily impressed 

 upon the memory of a passer-by, are often helpful as 

 regards colour and line in the garden. They should be 

 as carefully treasured and noted as any differences of 

 tying back which can be learnt from other countries. 

 This is shown in Fig. 24. Not only do the Japanese 

 teach us that a hedge of bamboos looks well against a 

 further dark-green background, but we learn from them 

 how to restrain these beautiful and graceful canes, by con- 

 trolling them merely with stems of the same plant. Were 

 they tightly tied in most of their grace would be lost. 



Therefore, a true garden designer, who is also a lover of 

 Nature, is ever watchful, always hoping for new suggestion. 

 It may come to him as he walks along a narrow 

 country lane in winter, where the brown bracken lingers 

 to give colour below the hedgerow ; or in summer, when 

 he wends his way between honeysuckle and clematis 

 festooned byways — a deep impression of beautiful form 

 or colour is perhaps then made upon his mind, and this 

 can be reproduced later in some garden scene. 



