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| Garden ornaments, feautres and figures |
BUILDING FEATURES
Except for dish types of gardens, building features should be
used most cautiously. Perhaps one of the most suitable types for
the stylized formal garden is that usually classified as a Greek
temple; it is usually merely a dome based on a few pillars standing on a circular foundation and is whitish in colour. It can be
used to good effect in conjunction with water and trees (particularly of the classical conifer type), and its proportionate size
rarely seems to become as out of place as other buildings might.
For less formal minigardens, a well-head, dovecote, summerhouse, arbour or chalet might be used, being made of wood,
wire, modelling paste or any materials that might be adapted.
For naturalized rocky landscapes the ruins of a castle might be
used to good effect.
Generally speaking, however, the fewer features added to the
trough or outdoor types of minigarden the better. They should
be used not for the sake of using them but because they provide
a finishing touch that will considerably enhance the finished
appearance.
JAPANESE AND DISH GARDENS
In Japanese (and other styles of dish garden), more features
can be incorporated than in the larger kinds. Some typical forms
of the Japanese are illustrated in Figs. 56 to 62. Fig. 56 illustrates
a few types of bridge, adaptable to various degrees of elaboration
in the garden design. Fig. 57 is a typical water-basin and is of
similar design to the stone lantern. Pagodas (Fig. 58) are usually
of three- or five-tier design, but may be more. Fig. 59 is an arch
for a main pathway. Buildings can vary a very great deal from
tiny rest-houses, tea-houses, bower-houses, to living-houses with
verandas or ornate temple buildings. A tea-house may be erected
on low stilts in the water garden and be approached either by
stepping stones or a small foot-bridge. A low, longish boathouse
(or birdhouse) may be erected from the bank over the water on
stilts, or a small landing-stage can run into the lake. Two small
typical buildings are shown in Fig. 60. Figures can easily be
fashioned in all manner of poses, walking, sitting, bending, fishing, or poling a boat, etc., in some of the attitudes suggested in
Fig. 61. Animals and birds can be modelled in a similar way, the
larger, wading type of bird being the most suitable. Note the
examples in Plates II and III.
All of these models are quite small and can be made with
modelling paste, as carefully fashioned and marked as possible.
Finer details can be carved with a sharp knife or filed. Then the
model can be painted with bright colours. In the case of birds
and human figures or any model with a small standing point
which could not normally stand by itself, a piece of wire is inserted
into the model so that about one inch projects from the bottom
and can be inserted into the soil as shown in the diagram.
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