THE LANDSCAPE PLANTHE LANDSCAPE PLAN To arrange and carry out a development of this sort you ought to have some sort of plan. Shall you perform this service for yourself or seek professional aid? That is sometimes a hard question to decide. It will be discussed at length later on, but here let it merely be said that a consultation with a good landscape architect at the beginning will be particularly advantageous. He can check up on what has been done; perhaps correct some error before it is too late. And he can give you a general idea as to whether the scheme you have in mind can be worked out in a practical way. Many people are much alarmed when it is suggested that a landscape plan be made. They at once have visions of elaborate formal developments, walls, marble balustrades and fountains, all costing a lot of money. But a landscape plan can as easily be simple as elaborate. The writers have made dozens that hadn't a bit of marble or a single terrace wall. Just because one has a plan, it is not necessarily costly or fussy. One tree, a shrub border, and a couple of flower beds may be all that is required; but even for these plain objectives a plan tells the location of each, its size, its proportionate relation to the other parts of the scheme. By all means have a plan
made or make one yourself. Even if you
do not carry out Fig. 9-The completed development,
showing very intensive use of the whole
property. The whole development at once,
whatever you do will be right, and ultimately
you will have the complete development
without having to rip up and rearrange,
which often is much more expensive than
securing adequate advice in the beginning. back
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