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Old 16-06-2004, 07:02 AM
David Hare-Scott
 
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Default making a garden look bigger


"William Wagner" wrote in message
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http://puregold.aquaria.net/landscape/sit/sit.htm
this is only a 20' x 20' area or so. Ingrid


Consider a mirror built into sculpture or add a water surface.
Reflection can suggest infinity. You can also use the oriental idea
of borrowing your neighbor's landscape as a addition (Ideally a
mountain this from Flat S. Jersey )) .

Bill

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Garden in Zone 5 S Jersey USA Shade


I have seen this work very well. In a quite modest garden they had worked
hard to disguise the back fence with shrubs along and in front of it and
there was quite a bit of foreground planting too. In the middle of the back
fence was a gate with a frame over it covered with a creeper. It looked
terrific and invited you to go through the gate to see the second area of
the garden revealed. Except there was no second area just a big mirror
fitted into the frame behind the gate to nowhere. The illusion was 100%
convincing.

David