DOI Heft:
No. 203 (February, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, [8]: with illustrations by C. E. Mallows, F. R. I. B. A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0047
Architectural Gardening— VIII.
GARDEN HOUSE SET IN RECESSED YEW HEDGE DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY F. L. GRIGGS
(.Another tart of the same scheme is illustrated on the previous page')
scheme. In the centre of the smaller one the
sunk rose garden is placed with a wide grass walk
intervening around, while the exposed surfaces of
the rock in the quarry are to be planted with a selec-
tion from the various and beautiful varieties of rock
plants. As this walk would be 18 feet wide from
the face of the rock to the yew hedge, and as the
rose garden is sunk again to a lower level, all the
necessary air and sunligh t would be obtained
whilst the general effect of this part looking from
the gardens above ought to be one of the most
picturesque and effective features in the scheme.
Other spaces devoted to the cultivation of roses
are those between the large centre grass plat and
the tennis lawn on one side and the bowling
green on the other. Incorporated in the plan,
and adjoining the sunk rose garden just referred
to, is a translation in plan of Miss Jekyll’s well-
known description of a large range of glasshouses.
It is linked up with the house plan and directly
connected with the conservatories and orangery
facing the west terrace by means of a covered way
or loggia between the terrace and the north flower
garden. In this way it will be possible to make the
circuit of all the glasshouses under cover, which is
an advantage in wet and cold weather.
On page 22 is illustrated a garden entrance
also for use as an outdoor room. The plan
is divided into two compartments with plain,
plaster vaults. The first or inner compartment
spans the narrow terrace which runs the length of
this, the south-west, front of the house. The outer
one is over a flight of steps leading to a broad
grass walk below.
A scheme of house and garden intended for a
small Shooting Box is the subject of the sketch
design on page 23 (top). In this scheme the
garden is of a very simple character, and consists
only of the lawn, pergola and terrace flower garden
as shown. On the other side of the pergola an
orchard is planned and the yew walk in the fore-
ground of the sketch separates an existing wood
from the north-west side of the lawn.
The garden house (with room over) set in the
recessed yew hedge, illustrated on this page,
together with the larger semicircular or apse-like
recess shown on page 23, form portions of an
extensive scheme of garden design of which we
hope to give a complete plan in a subsequent issue
of The Studio. Both these features - are linked
together and are complements of each other in the
general design.
The south-west or garden side of a sixteenth-
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 tart of the same scheme is illustrated on the previous page')
scheme. In the centre of the smaller one the
sunk rose garden is placed with a wide grass walk
intervening around, while the exposed surfaces of
the rock in the quarry are to be planted with a selec-
tion from the various and beautiful varieties of rock
plants. As this walk would be 18 feet wide from
the face of the rock to the yew hedge, and as the
rose garden is sunk again to a lower level, all the
necessary air and sunligh t would be obtained
whilst the general effect of this part looking from
the gardens above ought to be one of the most
picturesque and effective features in the scheme.
Other spaces devoted to the cultivation of roses
are those between the large centre grass plat and
the tennis lawn on one side and the bowling
green on the other. Incorporated in the plan,
and adjoining the sunk rose garden just referred
to, is a translation in plan of Miss Jekyll’s well-
known description of a large range of glasshouses.
It is linked up with the house plan and directly
connected with the conservatories and orangery
facing the west terrace by means of a covered way
or loggia between the terrace and the north flower
garden. In this way it will be possible to make the
circuit of all the glasshouses under cover, which is
an advantage in wet and cold weather.
On page 22 is illustrated a garden entrance
also for use as an outdoor room. The plan
is divided into two compartments with plain,
plaster vaults. The first or inner compartment
spans the narrow terrace which runs the length of
this, the south-west, front of the house. The outer
one is over a flight of steps leading to a broad
grass walk below.
A scheme of house and garden intended for a
small Shooting Box is the subject of the sketch
design on page 23 (top). In this scheme the
garden is of a very simple character, and consists
only of the lawn, pergola and terrace flower garden
as shown. On the other side of the pergola an
orchard is planned and the yew walk in the fore-
ground of the sketch separates an existing wood
from the north-west side of the lawn.
The garden house (with room over) set in the
recessed yew hedge, illustrated on this page,
together with the larger semicircular or apse-like
recess shown on page 23, form portions of an
extensive scheme of garden design of which we
hope to give a complete plan in a subsequent issue
of The Studio. Both these features - are linked
together and are complements of each other in the
general design.
The south-west or garden side of a sixteenth-
century house is shown opposite, with a some-
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