A Victorian bedding garden
The gardenesque garden after Loudon and Paxton: beds cut in the lawn and filled each summer with bright bedding plants in patterns, specimen conifers from the Americas (monkey puzzle and wellingtonia), gravel walks, a fountain and an iron-and-glass conservatory.
The rules it illustrates
The gardenesque: every plant seen whole. Plant each tree and shrub apart, with room to grow to its full natural form, so that it can be seen and admired as a specimen; prefer foreign kinds to native ones, so that the place is recognised at once as a garden, a work of art.
Bedding out. Raise tender plants in glasshouses through the winter and plant them out in early summer, massed in beds cut in the lawn or on a terrace, in blocks, ribbons or patterns of a few strong colours; lift them in autumn and replant for the next season.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Victorian garden.
In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.