The Natural Style In Landscape Gardening | by Frank A. Waugh
We may fairly claim to have achieved a full freedom in these matters. Every well-trained landscape architect in America designs freely if either the formal or the natural style, frequently using both styles in different parts of the same project. The ill-natured polemics of the seventies have disappeared altogether from the garden literature of the present day.
| Title | The Natural Style In Landscape Gardening |
| Author | Frank A. Waugh |
| Publisher | The Copp Clark Co., Limited |
| Year | 1917 |
| Copyright | 1917, The Copp Clark Co., Limited |
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BLACKMORK LAKE, MONTANA.
Photograph by Schlechten.
The Copp Clark Co., Limited
To: George A. Parker, Lover of the landscape and Love of mankind.
What Is Meant- ALL the older men and women now living whose recollections of garden matters run back, say into the seventies, will remember the violent controversy then raging between the advocates of the formal gar...
- What Is Meant. Continued
- My friend Dr. Wilhelm Miller in his recent crusade for the Illinois way represents a temperate recrudescence of this native plant propaganda. For it is a part of the Illinois way to use Illinois p...
- The Native Landscape
- WHETHER our foregoing definition of the natural style is adequate or defective, it must be plain that any naturalistic style of landscape gardening is largely dependent on the native landscape. The id...
- The Native Landscape. Part 2
- To the farmer the landscape is a part of the day's work. He plows and sows and harvests the landscape. If he is a true farmer his fields become inestimably dear to him. The sun, the wind, and the rain...
- The Native Landscape. Part 3
- The forests are more friendly and familiar. There is more of the feeling of domesticity about them. It is a strange fact that in the early settlement of America pioneers who had their choice avoided t...
- Form And Spirit
- OUR definition of the natural style of landscape gardening recognizes both form and spirit. We have said that it is a method of landscape gardening in which the natural forms of landscape are used and...
- Form And Spirit. Part 2
- We must have, not merely a facile familiarity with plants, but we must have some fairly profound philosophy of their use. That is, we must be able to use plants as nature uses them, to found our selec...
- Form And Spirit. Part 3
- Any direct attempt to capture the spirit of the landscape hardly promises success. Yet, beginning with this dear understanding of the existence of such a spirit, and living in the constant thought of ...
- The Landscape Motive
- EVERY work of art should have its subject, theme or motive. This principle is sufficiently obvious. In the natural style of landscape gardening, however, it becomes especially important to keep this p...
- Principles Of Structural Composition
- THOSE who have not considered the matter are apt to think that a garden in the natural style has no structure, that it is a merely accidental succession of parts. This notion is wrong, of course. The ...
- Principles Of Structural Composition. Part 2
- I hesitate to lay it down as a general rule, but I have a strong feeling that it is good technic to place the entrance somewhere near the lowest level of the park. By this expedient, the visitor will ...
- Principles Of Structural Composition. Part 3
- And so we pass from paragraph to paragraph. Perhaps number three brings us to a hill top and gives us a view of the woodland about us; perhaps number four descends into a wooded ravine, where oak fore...
- The Art Of Grouping
- LANDSCAPE gardeners, especially those of the naturalistic persuasion, have always had a suspicion that the art of grouping their plants was a very important matter. At one time and another a good deal...
- The Art Of Grouping. Part 2
- Another good reason, however, for the success of these larger groups lies in the fact that they offer much wider possibilities in detailed composition. There is much less danger of falling into one st...
- The Art Of Grouping. Part 3
- Considering the group with reference to total structure we shall see that the unit group in the smaller works may constitute the entire paragraph. In other words, to develop a small garden in good par...
- The Art Of Grouping. Part 4
- All these faults of grouping have one basis in common. They all result in part from the pernicious habit of studying planting plans in the flat, in plan on the drawing board. Every designer at his dra...
- The Art Of Grouping. Part 5
- The fact is, of course, that these miscellaneous colors are actually harmonized by Nature, and by such heroic means as the artists never could command. She uses first that never-failing background of ...
- Features And Furnishings
- TWO good reasons why the formal garden has sometimes appealed more to the popular mind than has the informal garden are. first, that the former has possessed more features of striking interest and, se...
- Features And Furnishings. Part 2
- Sometimes these collections of plant materials may be turned to a special purpose and become thereby new sources of interest and pleasure. For instance, a bird garden. Persons who are fond of flowers ...
- Features And Furnishings. Part 3
- There is also the pictorial effect to be considered, for a garden is made partly to be looked at. Now a campfire against a dark background of trees, in the dusk of the evening, with its inviting flick...
- The Open Field
- ONE does not need to be a partisan advocate of the natural style of landscape gardening to believe that it has a wide present usefulness and a glorious future. Let us, therefore, avoiding all invidiou...
