DOI issue:
Nr. 157 (March 1910)
DOI article:Architectural gardening, 8: with illustrations by C. E. Mallows, F.R.I.B.A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0049
Architectural Gardening— VIII.
GARDEN HOUSE SET IN RECESSED YEW HEDGE DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY F. L. GRIGGS
{Another part of the same scheme is illustrated on the previous page)
scheme. In the centre of the smaller one the also for use as an outdoor room. The plan
sunk rose garden is placed with a wide grass walk is divided into two compartments with plain,
intervening around, while the exposed surfaces of plaster vaults. The first or inner compartment
the rock in the quarry are to be planted with a selec- spans the narrow terrace which runs the length of
tion from the various and beautiful varieties of rock this, the south-west, front of the house. The outer
plants. As this walk would be 18 feet wide from one is over a flight of steps leading to a broad
the face of the rock to the yew hedge, and as the grass walk below.
rose garden is sunk again to a lower level, all the A scheme of house and garden intended for a
necessary air and sunlight would be obtained small Shooting Box is the subject of the sketch
whilst the general effect of this part looking from design on page 23 (top). In this scheme the
the gardens above ought to be one of the most garden is of a very simple character, and consists
picturesque and effective features in the scheme. only of the lawn, pergola and terrace flower garden
Other spaces devoted to the cultivation of roses as shown. On the other side of the pergola an
are those between the large centre grass plat and orchard is planned and the yew walk in the fore-
the tennis lawn on one side and the bowling ground of the sketch separa'es an existing wood
green on the other. Incorporated in the plan, from the north-west side of the lawn,
and adjoining the sunk rose garden just referred The garden house (with room over) set in the
to, is a translation in plan of Miss Jekyll's well- recessed yew hedge, illustrated on this page,
known description of a large range of glasshouses. together with the larger semicircular or apse-like
It is linked up with the house plan and directly recess shown on page 23, form portions of an
connected with the conservatories and orangery extensive scheme of garden design of which we
facing the west terrace by means of a covered way hope to give a complete plan in a subsequent issue
or loggia between the terrace and the north flower of The Studio. Both these features - are linked
garden. In this way it will be possible to make the together and are complements of each other in the
circuit of all the glasshouses under cover, which is general design.
an advantage in wet and cold weather. The south-west or garden side of a sixteenth-
On page 22 is illustrated a garden entrance century house is shown opposite, with a some-
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GARDEN HOUSE SET IN RECESSED YEW HEDGE DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY F. L. GRIGGS
{Another part of the same scheme is illustrated on the previous page)
scheme. In the centre of the smaller one the also for use as an outdoor room. The plan
sunk rose garden is placed with a wide grass walk is divided into two compartments with plain,
intervening around, while the exposed surfaces of plaster vaults. The first or inner compartment
the rock in the quarry are to be planted with a selec- spans the narrow terrace which runs the length of
tion from the various and beautiful varieties of rock this, the south-west, front of the house. The outer
plants. As this walk would be 18 feet wide from one is over a flight of steps leading to a broad
the face of the rock to the yew hedge, and as the grass walk below.
rose garden is sunk again to a lower level, all the A scheme of house and garden intended for a
necessary air and sunlight would be obtained small Shooting Box is the subject of the sketch
whilst the general effect of this part looking from design on page 23 (top). In this scheme the
the gardens above ought to be one of the most garden is of a very simple character, and consists
picturesque and effective features in the scheme. only of the lawn, pergola and terrace flower garden
Other spaces devoted to the cultivation of roses as shown. On the other side of the pergola an
are those between the large centre grass plat and orchard is planned and the yew walk in the fore-
the tennis lawn on one side and the bowling ground of the sketch separa'es an existing wood
green on the other. Incorporated in the plan, from the north-west side of the lawn,
and adjoining the sunk rose garden just referred The garden house (with room over) set in the
to, is a translation in plan of Miss Jekyll's well- recessed yew hedge, illustrated on this page,
known description of a large range of glasshouses. together with the larger semicircular or apse-like
It is linked up with the house plan and directly recess shown on page 23, form portions of an
connected with the conservatories and orangery extensive scheme of garden design of which we
facing the west terrace by means of a covered way hope to give a complete plan in a subsequent issue
or loggia between the terrace and the north flower of The Studio. Both these features - are linked
garden. In this way it will be possible to make the together and are complements of each other in the
circuit of all the glasshouses under cover, which is general design.
an advantage in wet and cold weather. The south-west or garden side of a sixteenth-
On page 22 is illustrated a garden entrance century house is shown opposite, with a some-
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