Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning

What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Reviewing all the elements involved in making a garden, Robert Mallet explains-with stunning photographs and helpful diagrams-what works, offering a range of practical ideas that can be adapted to visually enlarge space and liberate the mind. Mallet was for over twenty years in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, a park created by his grandfather in Normandy, one of the most beautiful gardens in France, where he was able to put his ideas to the test within the context of a masterpiece of scenic design.