An Arts and Crafts garden
After Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens (Hestercombe, Munstead Wood): a terrace by the house behind a dry-stone wall, round steps, a sunk plat with flagged paths, rills with round pools, a long double herbaceous border graded from cool colours at the ends to hot in the middle, yew-hedged garden rooms and a pergola of stone piers and oak beams.
The rules it illustrates
The wild garden. Place perfectly hardy plants, foreign as well as native, in woods, meadows, banks and the edges of water where they will thrive and spread without further care, instead of renewing tender bedding every year.
House and garden designed as one. Design the garden with the house and as part of it: carry the lines of the house into the garden in terraces, walls, walks and hedges, divide it into enclosures, and let the architect who designs the house design these as well.
The border planted by colour. Arrange a long border in a sequence of colours: at the ends, cool blues, whites, pale yellows and pinks with grey foliage; towards the middle, stronger yellows and oranges rising to the deepest reds at the centre; then back again. Plant in long, thin, overlapping drifts rather than blocks.
The garden in rooms. Divide the garden into a sequence of enclosures by hedges and walls, each with its own character, colour or season, joined by openings on axes, so that the garden is discovered room by room and never seen at once.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Arts and Crafts garden.
In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.