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 the elements involved, Robert Mallet explains easily achieved principles for making beautiful gardens, offering a range of ideas that can be adapted to visually enlarge space and liberate the mind. For over twenty years Mallet was in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, where he was able to put his ideas to the test within the context of a masterpiece of scenic design.