Wolf's lair in a town garden
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Ed Wolf has a garden for living in and not for gardening, achieved with a sloping glass wall and glass roofs at the back of his house to deceive the eye as to the true end of the house and start of the garden. A custom-made fence, stained green, wraps around into a shed. Differently paved areas are used for eating outside, on green furniture which blends in. Gaps are left between the stone slabs to encourage creeping plants and mosses. Many plants in containers add colour.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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The very model of a modernist garden
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Ensuring that the garden of an extremely modernist 1960s house blends in with the design of the house can be difficult. The garden needs a bold, determined architectural style, and plants must be sculptural. Any additions to the garden must serve to draw it together, and specimen trees can be useful in this respect. The garden could also be divided into separate areas by varying the mowing regime to achieve different lengths of grass.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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'In an Italian garden you might find fountains based on classical mythology. Here you get a fireman cherub in crazy helmet, mermaids holding out their hair with expressions suggesting they have just had a disastrous session with a Mayfair crimper.' (Plas Brondanw garden, Gwynedd, Wales)
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Plas Brondanw garden in Gwynedd, Wales, was established by Edwardian architect-gardener Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who is most well known for Portmeirion, the Italianate village constructed in the 1920s. There are beautiful views from the garden towards Snowdonia, and the garden itself is divided up into a series of enclosed outdoor rooms by hedges. It is a mixture of grand, classical Italianate lines and fancy decoration.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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