Property News · October 15, 2016

How to screen out garden eyesores | Alys Fowler


Fed up with looking at your neighbour’s pants on the washing line, or a wall of ugly yellow bricks? Alys Fowler can helpThe borrowed landscape is an old trick. It’s a Chinese concept that takes scenery from the environment around you, so that your garden doesn’t necessarily look bigger, but is enhanced. There were several levels: the distant borrowing of a mountain view or the sea; adjacent borrowing of a lovely roof or a fine bit of architecture; upward borrowing of sky and clouds; or the downward borrowing of rocks and ponds.The idea of borrowed scenery got quickly adopted into Japanese garden principles and, for that matter, pretty much every other landscape design movement in history. It makes sense to look beyond if there’s something worth looking beyond for. But what if your adjacent borrowing is the neighbour’s pants on the washing line or a wall of ugly yellow bricks? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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