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This same idea can be
followed throughout the seasons with different individuals or
groups carrying on the succession of bloom.
To continue, if you have peonies on one side of the garden
walk as accents, repeat them on the other side. If you use
strong combinations or contrasts of colors for accent, like
veronica and lilies, repeat them across the central axis. If on
one side you have used white phlox, use it on the other side,
or use some other white flower, which blooms at the same
time. The size of the groups may vary, but the sum total of
weight on each side of the axis in color or texture should be
the same. You might have, for example, two small groups of
deep pink phlox on the left, and only a single group, equal
to the sum of the two small groups, on the right.
There is one variant of this placement rule possible in for
mal gardens. We have been thinking here of the terminal-
motive garden where the center is a long straight path or grass
panel. The central-motive garden with four or more equal
areas surrounding a central feature is even more formal.
Each of the beds must be planted the same way, balanced
across the main and secondary axes, and also cornerwise.
Here the feeling of balance may be heightened by the use of
such strong accent plants at the intersections of the pathways
as matched pairs of clipped evergreens, peonies, hemerocallis,
or strong color groups. The important thing is so to arrange
the planting that you have a feeling of equilibrium as you
stand at the principal vantage point and look into the garden.
Next to unity, no other principle of compositions will do
quite so much for a garden as nice regard for formal or
symmetrical balance. (Plate 9).
PLANTING LIST FOR PLATE 10
1.Tilia tomentosa
2.Juniperus virginiana
3.Thuya plicata
4.Pseudotsuga taxifolia
5.Chamaecyparis pisifera filifera
6.Abies nordmanniana
7.Lonicera morrowi
8.Philadelphia coronarius
9.Deutzia lemoinei
10.Stephanandra incisa
11.Spirea arguta
12.Deutzia Pride of Rochester
13.Spirea prunifolium
14.Cornus mas
15.Cercis canadensis
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