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Act your age: How to get the perfect blend of home and garden

Apart from selecting appropriate plants, it is important to include suitable design features. A rigidly formal structure would be inappropriate outside a romantic thatched cottage but is suited to a Georgian townhouse. Many gardens of this time consisted of borders filled with shrubs that ran around the entire space, edged by low box hedging.

Square or oval lawns reached by gravel paths, trellis screens and circular beds planted with specimen shrubs will complete the look. Victorian front gardens were usually simple, featuring a tiled path with roperoll edging and a small lawn dotted with a shrub, or possibly a small parterre with compartments filled with brightly coloured bedding plants.

Large-scale parterres of clipped box or lavender were often created in larger back gardens. Less formal beds were sited
further from the house.

Japanese-style gardens, sunken gardens with geometric ponds, extensive wooden pergolas, stone terraces and sweeping herbaceous

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Lumpkin honored on 100th birthday

Atmore News - Dec 31, 1969

Ivy topiaries accented each table. A large topiary of ivy, lilies and pink ribbon was the focal point for the refreshment table. A photo album will be presented to Helen from the United Methodist Women. Gay Drew is president of United Methodist Women

Spring Garden Guide II

CaryCitizen - Dec 31, 1969

It takes a nice shearing if you are into topiary. There are lots of varieties of Privet. Pretty much all are blooming around now. Their scent is big – it surrounds the house in a cloud of perfume for weeks, mixing with the other Spring fragrances in

Floral Fancies

The Handbook - Dec 31, 1969

The restaurant's facade will be highlighted with fresh white pelargoniums and finely cut ivy trailing from topiary cones and spheres above. At street level, trees will support climbing roses and clematis, framing the windows.

Free Film School #48: Tonight I'm Gonna Docu Tonight (Part 1)

Crave Online - Dec 31, 1969

In a previous installment of the Free Film School here in the ivy-covered cyber-halls of CraveOnline, I wrote an article on how films lie to you. That particular lesson was a fun compilation on the way the typically-used language of film differs from

Plant City Garden Club honors NY couple

Tbo.com - Dec 31, 1969

Along the front walkway are two white cast-iron benches with English ivy trailing out of a large urn to the right of the doorway. The walkway to the right of the house it is edged with boxwood and creeping fig climbing the house. There are holly trees,