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Posted by RicodJour on January 2, 2007, 12:19 am
kaz101 wrote:
> If a landscape is a picture, it must have a canvas. This canvas is
> the lawn. Upon the lawn, the artist paints with tree and bush and
> flower as the painter does upon his canvas with brush and pigments.
> The opportunity for artistic composition and design is nowhere so
> great as in the landscape garden, because no other art has such a
> limitless field for the expression of its emotions.
>
> The making of a good and spacious lawn, then, is the very first
> practical consideration in a landscape. The lawn provided, the
> gardener conceives what is the dominant and central feature in
> the place, and then throws the entire premises into subordination
> to this feature. In home grounds this central feature is the house.
> To scatter trees and bushes over the area defeats the fundamental
> purpose of the place,--the purpose to make every part of the
> grounds lead up to the home and to accentuate its homelikeness.
>
> It is desirable to have a definite plan on paper for the location
> of the leading features of the place. These features are the
> residence,the out buildings, the walks and drives, the service areas,
> the border planting, flower-garden, and vegetable-garden. It should
> not be expected that the map plan can be followed in every detail, but
> it will serve as a general guide.
>
> To begin, you will need to draw a base plan to scale. For most
> properties a scale of 1/8"=1' is workable; for small properties or a
> particular area of a larger development 1/4"=1' may be better.
> Graph paper with lines indicating a particular scale may also be
> helpful.
>
> You should include all the major features of your property on your
> drawing such as existing walks, terraces, outbuildings, trees,
> shrubs, drives, property lines, easements, utilities, etc.
>
> After you have prepared the base plan you can place tracing
> paper or tissue paper over the original plan to sketch possible
> ideas and solutions to your landscape needs and problems.
>
> for more visit...
> http://www.millmoney.com/landsca
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