Reading is life to me, so shouldn't I spend every non-gardening moment delighting in the classic garden writers?
Two of them were plans for classic garden cities, built on greenfield sites.
Clement Butt, owner of Classic Garden Designs in Weston, who is working with Mr. Kottage, said it may be a mix of grapes and wisteria.
The hallways at Barbizon 63 are notorious, he notes, for ambushing furniture, and beneath-the-stoop entrances to classic garden apartments strangle even standard-issue sofas the way Venus' flytraps inhale insects.
Ms. Verey wrote more than a dozen garden books including "The Classic Garden" and "The Garden in Winter," which were seminal works for Americans interested in design and sophisticated use of plants, with color and texture year-round.
With skills honed by lots of on-the-job training, and an education gleaned by reading the many classic garden works in the older woman's library, Mrs. Clark hung out her own shingle.
Mr. Tono planned a fluid jigsaw of four classic Japanese garden styles: a flat garden, a tea garden, a strolling pond garden and a sand and stone garden.
Prickly pears, ficus and fantastically gnarled trees — deliberately twisted according to classic Thai gardening traditions — framed aged statues and temples above koi-filled ponds.
There are classic beer gardens (Hallo Berlin), hipster beer gardens (Radegast Hall), beer gardens catering to frat boys (Studio Square) and a beer garden in a former Brooklyn auto-body shop (Mission Dolores).
While the classic cottage garden is built around a cottage, many cottage-style gardens are created around houses and even estates such as Hidcote Manor, with its more intimate "garden rooms".
