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Color and Design for Every Garden
HARMONIOUS colors and sound design are the characteris tics that differentiate successful gardens from ordinary ones.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
MANY gardens are merely planted, and like Topsy, left to grow in their own way. The results are often passable, and occasionally good for brief periods, but they could be much better if more thought were given to plant arrangement
Color and Design for Every Garden - Some Lesser Rules
GARDENERS of some experience who are ready to work for rather finished effects will also consider other elements of design.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
Color, though it ultimately enters into the problem, is not a controlling factor.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
Since the effect of color is largely psychological, and since it is influenced, as it appears in the garden, by light, shadow, climate, and humidity,
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Many designers employ certain plants like Lymegrass for foliage alone.
Color and Design for Every Garden -
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Garden Pictures through the Year
The calendar sets the date March twenty-first, but most gardeners know that in the northeastern section of the country,
Color and Design for Every Garden - For Midsummer and Later
Such early varieties as the fragrant orange-yellow Dr. Regel, Estmere, and Sovereign begin to bloom in May with iris and peonies.
Color and Design for Every Garden - How to Make a Planting Plan
On your plan, indicate first the existing features-the house and garage, the walks, driveway, walls, fences, and any other structures, and draw these to scale.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Adapting Plants to Climate and Soil
It will always be found that native plants are better suited to a particular locality than importations, be they from other sections of this country, or from abroad.
Color and Design for Every Garden
Imagination is something from within which is developed through study and training.
Color in Garden Design
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Many people still think of a garden as just a place to grow flowers.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
Segregation is the first law of artistic composition. Your garden must be set off by a tangible barrier.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Some Lesser Rules
Accent through contrast in foliages is not the only valuable attribute of texture.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
Their shade discourages weeds and conserves moisture, the main purposes of cultivation.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
Color is not the beginning and end of gardening.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Accent and Emphasis
Any shrub border of considerable length must have some where in it an occasional accent plant
Color and Design for Every Garden - Foundation Plantings
Outside the terrace wall or hedge, there must be another special planting.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Narcissus Companions
The pictures for late April and early May are easier to arrange and wider in scope.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Midsummer Lilies
For more color along the edge of the border, try some of the plants usually confined to the rock garden.
Color and Design for Every Garden - How to Make a Planting Plan
The plan should show the location of each specimen.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Effect of Humidity
Humidity (moist atmosphere) has almost as much to do with successful gardening as soil.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Avoid too much emphasis on raising perfect specimens, and keep away from minute subtle combinations in small groups which may be charming
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
How to achieve unity is, however, more important than how to detect its absence. In the garden pattern all parts of the design, path, bed, or border, must be interrelated.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Some Lesser Rules
The tendency to regard plants as specimens rather than as a part of a larger picture is noticeable in our treatment of trees and outstanding shrubs.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
Back of the edging, use slightly taller and less compact spring and early summer flowers
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - How to Plan a Shrub Border
To increase apparent distance, use a few gray-foliaged plants at the far end.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Green Garden
The bulk of the planting should consist of low slow-growing plants, not necessarily dwarfs, but certainly not pines, spruces, and firs.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Garden Pictures through the Year
The terms daffodil and narcissus are interchangeable. Daf fodil is the common name of the whole tribe; narcissus, the generic or Latin name.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Pictures for July
With such opportunities, you can certainly plan your gar den for plenty of bloom during midsummer.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Plant Sizes and Spacing
To accompany the plan make a list of plant names and assign a key number to each.
Color and Design for Every Garden - TREES AND SHRUBS FOR THE MID-SOUTHAND CALIFORNIA
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Every successful garden is designed and planted according to a pattern, and each pattern is based on principles
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
All plants do not thrive in the same soil. So the soil of your garden will help to govern your choice.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Some Lesser Rules
Most of these edgings were neat little hedges of boxwood or yew, but some were clipped germander,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
The rearmost strip, or if the bed is bordered on two sides by paths, the middle section, should properly contain
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
IBrilliant colors should never be concentrated in one place, and dull colors in another, except where brilliant color is used in partial shade.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Hedges
Where privacy must be achieved and there is insufficient room for a shrub border, or where definite clipped lines are important to the design, use hedges.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Old, Established Gardens
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Emphasis on Tulips
In the garden where tulips are the main display, a different treatment is advisable.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The August Picture with Phloxand Lilies
Early-blooming Phlox Leo Schlageter in front of Artemisia lacti flora and globethistle.
Color and Design for Every Garden - How to Make a Planting Plan
Perennial and annual quantities can be estimated on a square foot basis.
Color and Design for Every Garden - SHRUBS PECULIAR TO THE MID-SOUTH
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
The location of your garden necessarily depends upon the shape and topography of the lot, the type of house
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
Unity may also be obtained by restricting a garden to a certain class of plants-perennials, roses, or annuals.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Some Lesser Rules
The curved lines of tumbling vines and the graceful foliage of a weeping tree are important to relieve the severe lines of stairways,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
It is fine if a property is large enough to include a series of small gardens, each devoted to one or two seasons, and each situated so as to be inconspicuous when not in full flower.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
This natural color scheme provides bloom from frost to frost, and also satisfies the more catholic taste irked by re stricted schemes.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Walls
Among evergreens and semievergreen broad-leaved shrubs, several of the cotoneasters like acutifolia, make fine hedges, also Berberis verruculosa and julianae.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Gardens in the Shade
Such a garden is supremely restful and satisfying and much easier to keep in fine condition.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Combinations with Single Early Tulips
In gardens where tulips are important but still not the main show, we often lift only one section a year and replace with new bulbs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - For Midsummer and Later
There is a small group of lilies that can be used with phlox for accent.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Professional Assistance
Many home owners are somewhat reluctant to engage pro fessional help in laying out their gardens.
Color and Design for Every Garden - TREES AND SHRUBS FOR THE LOWER SOUTHAND CALIFORNIA
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
This principal feature or focal point must dominate the scheme. It must be the most important thing in it, the highest point of development.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
Small gardens cannot accommodate more than one or two related pictures at a time. Limiting the pictures in bloom at the same time is another way of securing unity.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Basic Plans for Succession
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
For example, if you have a leaning toward blue, use groups of various blue iris in the spring picture, followed by lupines, delphinium, ageratum,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Fences and Latticework
It is attractive to interrupt the rigid lines of walls with vines, a shrub or two, especially at the corners or angles, or in the case of a dry wall, with a few rock plants.
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Secondaries like dogwood, cercis, and hornbeam will serve to tie the shrub borders in with the tall forest foliage above.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Combinations with Darwins, Breeders,and Cottage Tulips
Tulips should be selected to harmonize with the more per manent plants in the background and with the existing herba ceous
Color and Design for Every Garden - The September Picture
During September and October, the most important peren nials are the hardy asters, chrysanthemums, and heleniums.
Color and Design for Every Garden - How to Make a Planting Plan
The matter of fees for professional service is not well un derstood. Most established landscape architects operate on a per diem basis.
Color and Design for Every Garden - VINES FOR SOUTHERN GARDENSAND CALIFORNIA
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
To continue, if you have peonies on one side of the garden walk as accents, repeat them on the other side.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
It may be you will interpret this as a plea for stronger color in the garden. s
Color and Design for Every Garden - Specimen Plants
For partial enclosure there may be a fence, wall, or hedge part way round a garden, the rest of the space filled by shrub and tree borders.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Acer pennsylvanicum
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Garden Pictures through the Year
Try the claret-red with soft lilac highlights of Notre Dame and smaller groups of the breeder tulips, Denver and Elissa Landi, whose rosy violet and purple will blend well.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums have long been important in gardens.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Central Plain States and UpperMississippi Valley
Ruth and Emmet Layton, who have practiced landscape architecture successfully in the St. Louis area for years, write of the conditions they encounter as follows:
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Naturally the focal point of a rather formal scheme will be more highly developed architecturally and therefore seem more important
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
This consists in balancing dissimilar elements on each side of the axis.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
Blue is popular in the garden because of the beauty of blue flowers, the emotional effect, and perhaps because it is rela tively rare in the plant world.
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The old-fashioned smoke tree is one of these, and the weeping varieties of beech, birch, cherry, hemlock, and spruce.
Color and Design for Every Garden -
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Forty Years of Gardening
You will need few sharp cleavages between groups of tu lips.
Color and Design for Every Garden - For Midsummer and Later
Such early varieties as the fragrant orange-yellow Dr. Regel, Estmere, and Sovereign begin to bloom in May with iris and peonies.
Color and Design for Every Garden - BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
There is nothing wrong with a simple garden pattern. Some 40 Color and Design for Every Garden of the largest and most noteworthy gardens are extremely simple in basic design.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
One of the ways of avoiding rigidity is occasionally to change the position of taller plants.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden -BLUE FLOWERS
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Views and Vistas
Views and vistas, if they exist on a property, are to be cher ished, since they give an illusion of much more space.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Bird Gardens
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Iris in the Garden
Ella Porter McKinney in Iris for the Little Garden has this to say: Arrangement of plants is a matter of personal taste, and color relations are ever controversy-provoking.
Color and Design for Every Garden - For Midsummer and Later
A few of the tall single-flowered varieties might be used in the background.
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This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
If the arrangement cannot be symmetrical on a bisect- ing axis, balance can be secured by placing large, plain masses on one side against smaller, more interesting groups on the other.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Principles of Plant Arrangament
The most effective way to obtain accent is to break up large masses of similar plants, to lead the eye on through the garden, or to direct attention to the focal point or climax of the design.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Aquilegia caerulea
Veronica spuria (amethystina) Royal Blue
Color and Design for Every Garden - Trees in the Garden
Some shade is desirable in the garden, but it must not in terfere with the well-being of flowers or the lawn.
Color and Design for Every Garden - PLANTS FOR BIRD GARDENS
A word should be said about cats. We do not share the violent antipathy to cats evinced by most bird lovers.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Iris in the Garden
Iris is most effective in long narrow drifts, for the bearded types sometimes have a period when their foliage is poor.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Gardens in Winter
We have followed the garden cycle from early spring through summer and autumn.
Color and Design for Every Garden -PLANTS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSESOR CONDITIONS
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - The Importance of Planning
Finally there are the free patterns known as informal or naturalistic. Almost without exception these are unsuited to the circumscribed level
Color and Design for Every Garden - Garden Accessories
Man points up, develops the natural scene, and makes it art!
Color and Design for Every Garden - Campanula persicifolia grandiflora
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,Campanula persicifolia grandiflora
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Because they are so coarse, it is doubtful whether on the very small place, catalpa or pawlonia should ever be used.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Ampelopsis)
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Early Summer Pictures
Iris pallida or Princess Beatrice is pleasing with the soft pink single peony Yokohama.
Color and Design for Every Garden - For Midsummer and Later
The pool may be drained, but it can be filled with ever green boughs of hemlock and spruce, so that its carefully designed outline still functions as part of the garden pattern.
Color and Design for Every Garden - FRAGRANT PERENNIALS AND ANNUALS
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Amorpha canescens
These hues lie between blue and red and are most difficult to use effectively. Long considered symbols of loyalty, they bring dignity to the garden.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Autumn Color
Variable foliages, those green on one side and gray or sil very beneath, are of unique value.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Sea and Lakeside Gardens
Since exposure affects the well-being of all plants, care must be taken in the selection of material for gardens at the seashore,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Delphinium Highlights
Delphinium is probably the most popular of all perennials.
Color and Design for Every Garden - VINES VALUABLE FOR CONCEALMENT
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Tulip Denver
Blue-reds should be grouped with their own tints and shades, or be combined with creamy white, pale rose, soft yellow, and an abundance of green foliage.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Trees Around the House
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Betula papyrifera
Where there is no direct exposure to strong winds, broad hedges of privet make satisfactory barriers.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Delphinium with yellow Thalictrum flavum
This principal feature or focal point must dominate the scheme. It must be the most important thing in it, the highest point of development.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Shrubs, deciduous
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Aster Pacific Amaranth
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Lawn and Shade Trees
On larger properties, there is need for several shade trees or groups of trees.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Celtis occidentalis
People are always asking us for quick-growing trees and objecting to oaks because, they say, they are so slow.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Combinations with Hemerocallis
Such early varieties as the fragrant orange-yellow Dr. Regel, Estmere, and Sovereign begin to bloom in May with iris and peonies.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Regional Plantings
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Elsholtzia stauntoni
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - PLANTS FOR MOIST OR HEAVY SOILS
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Shrubs for Background
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Aster Beechwood Challenger
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Ferns (moist shade)
This produces a rectilinear, square, or round scheme with two or more strong axial lines crossing in the center.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Paeonia ofEcinalis Ama-No-Sode
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Lythrum superbum Mordens Pink
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Chrysanthemum Major Cushion
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Erysimum asperum
awny orange and browns should be used with each other, or with yellow or white.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Yellow for Light and Life
Yellow is abundant through the garden year. The colors of spring are yellow and white. Various mulleins, evening primroses, rudbeckia, and several lilies
Color and Design for Every Garden - YELLOW IN COMBINATIONS
Bright yellow should be used seldom with pale blue-violet and never with pink.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Narcissus Aerolite
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Color in the Garden
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - White, the Fifth Primary
Although pure white is rare in nature there are many so called whites among flowers, which upon examination turn out to be tints of yellow, blue, or green, so pale they can hardly be so designated.
Color and Design for Every Garden - White Trumpet
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Delphinium grandiflorum chinense album
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Boltonia asteroides
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - Green, the Sixth Primary
Many designers employ certain plants like Lymegrass for foliage alone.
Color and Design for Every Garden - Gray and Silvery Foliage
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
Color and Design for Every Garden - PERENNIALS
In spring, gardeners crave a host of daffodils, wide splashes of color from tulips, many spring-flowering shrubs,
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