DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:Rosse, Helena S.: Statuary in the garden
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0050
mceRnAcioriAL
there is no reason why this
method should not be employed
for the execution of garden fig-
ures and other garden orna-
ments. It might be advisable to
protect this material against too
severe tests of the elements, and
placing them under a slight
cover as is usually done with the
European Pietas would only
offer additional opportunity for
working out a charming and
different garden feature, which
could be combined with a
wooden seat, a pergola, a fence
or a garden house. Another ad-
vantage of the use of wood as a
material for garden ornamenta-
tion is that it so happily com-
bines itself with the garden
surroundings, particularly if
placed in the vicinity of trees
and shrubbery, where the damp-
ness will coat it with a greenish
hue, which makes it look de-
lightfully at home in its sur-
roundings. At the same time a
place in an open, sunny garden
could be becoming to a well
carved and colored wooden
statue, provided that the plant-
ing around it were done most
carefully and in perfect har-
mony with the colors used on
the woodwork. A very unusual
effect could be reached by hav-
ing, for instance, a small sepa-
umbrella from which water drips. As it so often rate garden, as part of a larger one, where in the
goes in cases like this, it will probably take planting scheme such colors were used as are almost
another generation to get over the prejudice impossible to use successfully in combination with
developed against this material, which was used the general range of colors of favorite annuals,
with great success for statuary in the seventeenth perennials, etc. For however beautiful the scarlet
century. The porousness of the material makes it of salvias, dahlias, pelargoniums and some of the
acquire a green lichen which is often very attrac- brightest zinnias is, it will often spoil the effect of
tive. an otherwise excellent flower garden if it is used
Another group of garden ornaments, discarded in combination with hollyhocks, campanulas or
along with their iron and terra cotta brothers and asters and other flower favorites which we do not
sisters, is that of the brightly painted wooden want to omit from the general scheme,
ladies, many of which had the same charm that It is therefore a good plan for gardens where
the old figureheads of ships possess. Today, about plenty of space is available to have a separate red
the most extended application of colored wood- garden where all those flowers are planted also
work and polychromed carving, in combination which combine well with the red ones, and in just
with shrubery and trees, may be seen in Japan, that kind of garden a polychrome wooden figure
notably in the large temple gardens of Nikko. In could be made use of in a most effective way, by
Europe, too, polychromed wooden statuary is giving it colors strong enough to compete with the
often used for roadwise crucifixes and Pietas, and brightness of the flowers.
■BY BKIZNDA PUTNAM
fifty
APRIL I925
there is no reason why this
method should not be employed
for the execution of garden fig-
ures and other garden orna-
ments. It might be advisable to
protect this material against too
severe tests of the elements, and
placing them under a slight
cover as is usually done with the
European Pietas would only
offer additional opportunity for
working out a charming and
different garden feature, which
could be combined with a
wooden seat, a pergola, a fence
or a garden house. Another ad-
vantage of the use of wood as a
material for garden ornamenta-
tion is that it so happily com-
bines itself with the garden
surroundings, particularly if
placed in the vicinity of trees
and shrubbery, where the damp-
ness will coat it with a greenish
hue, which makes it look de-
lightfully at home in its sur-
roundings. At the same time a
place in an open, sunny garden
could be becoming to a well
carved and colored wooden
statue, provided that the plant-
ing around it were done most
carefully and in perfect har-
mony with the colors used on
the woodwork. A very unusual
effect could be reached by hav-
ing, for instance, a small sepa-
umbrella from which water drips. As it so often rate garden, as part of a larger one, where in the
goes in cases like this, it will probably take planting scheme such colors were used as are almost
another generation to get over the prejudice impossible to use successfully in combination with
developed against this material, which was used the general range of colors of favorite annuals,
with great success for statuary in the seventeenth perennials, etc. For however beautiful the scarlet
century. The porousness of the material makes it of salvias, dahlias, pelargoniums and some of the
acquire a green lichen which is often very attrac- brightest zinnias is, it will often spoil the effect of
tive. an otherwise excellent flower garden if it is used
Another group of garden ornaments, discarded in combination with hollyhocks, campanulas or
along with their iron and terra cotta brothers and asters and other flower favorites which we do not
sisters, is that of the brightly painted wooden want to omit from the general scheme,
ladies, many of which had the same charm that It is therefore a good plan for gardens where
the old figureheads of ships possess. Today, about plenty of space is available to have a separate red
the most extended application of colored wood- garden where all those flowers are planted also
work and polychromed carving, in combination which combine well with the red ones, and in just
with shrubery and trees, may be seen in Japan, that kind of garden a polychrome wooden figure
notably in the large temple gardens of Nikko. In could be made use of in a most effective way, by
Europe, too, polychromed wooden statuary is giving it colors strong enough to compete with the
often used for roadwise crucifixes and Pietas, and brightness of the flowers.
■BY BKIZNDA PUTNAM
fifty
APRIL I925