{"id":30135,"date":"2016-10-15T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-screen-out-garden-eyesores-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2016-10-15T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T10:10:53","slug":"how-to-screen-out-garden-eyesores-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-screen-out-garden-eyesores-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"How to screen out garden eyesores | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFed up with looking at your neighbour\u2019s pants on the washing line, or a wall of ugly yellow bricks? Alys Fowler can helpThe borrowed landscape is an old trick. It\u2019s a Chinese concept that takes scenery from the environment around you, so that your garden doesn\u2019t 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\u2019s something worth looking beyond for. But what if your adjacent borrowing is the neighbour\u2019s pants on the washing line or a\u00a0wall of ugly yellow bricks? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Fed up with looking at your neighbour\u2019s pants on the washing line, or a wall...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-7Q3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95405,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-care-for-roses-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":30135,"position":0},"title":"How to care for roses | Alys Fowler","date":"August 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The quickest route to good health in roses at this time of year is liquid feedI inherited a Rosa \u2018Alb\u00e9ric Barbier\u2019; it was placed halfway down the garden and did what a rambler is wont to do \u2013 namely, spread all the way over into the neighbour\u2019s garden. 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