BASIC LANDSCAPE DESIGN-5BASIC LANDSCAPE DESIGN-5 A shrub border reinforced by the court wall and broken by the introduction of a few small trees. (These serve to screen the property from possible future undesirable structures on the adjoining lot to the west.) A paved living terrace has been thrown out from the living room, toward the southeast. This will be attractively sunny in the morning and coolly shady in the afternoon-two highly desirable characteristics. It commands a view across the southern and eastern parts of the lot, where the gardens and lawns are to be. The garden leads directly off the terrace by a flight of broad, low steps and consists of a simple grass panel of interesting shape broken into two levels similar to the orchestra and stage of a small theater. Along the sides of the "orchestra" part are perennial borders with auxiliary paths behind them, and more borders for the taller and coarser plants back against the enclosing hedge and shrub masses. The "stage" part of the garden is developed wider laterally and is terminated, as all good gardens of this type must be, by a somewhat architectural feature. This one takes the form of a garden house, overlooking the stream beyond and back into the garden, and serves to terminate the vista which begins in the living room and traverses the length of the garden. It also serves to hold the scheme together
by re-echoing the architectural note of the house,
being in the same style. The cross axis
of the "stage" part
of the garden is more strongly developed
than that in the lower area, and leads
out on one side to the lawn and on the
other to a small rose garden. From the
rose garden a system of paths brings one
to the woodland, and around to the front
or more accurately, the arrival side of
the house, thus making a circuit which
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