I could choose my own favourite plants for the garden, background music, wattage of light-bulbs, which parties, films, visits to go on, or whether the dog could sleep on the bed.
When the rabbits are depicted, they are viewed in the middle distance in order to include all six as well as the garden background.
M. Daphne Kutzer, Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh indicates in Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code that the tale's principal theme is the trickster animal, though she is careful to point out that, even then, the animals are subordinate to the exquisite garden backgrounds.
Initially, we received an encouraging 30 applicants, but on closer inspection, most were from a garden maintenance background.
The Ellsworth Kelly ice-cream bar (with Kelly sculpture on rooftop garden in background) Courtesy SFMOMA.
Wiley also likes arrangements dense with foliage--a style she calls "English cottage garden". The idea, she says, is to create the illusion that you've brought a patch of the garden indoors, background foliage, ground cover and all.
If you want the gnome to have a background as well, consider a garden setting, a gnome village, an exotic location for a well-traveled gnome or a flower bed as some ideas for a background.
Anderson said those drawn to New York's urban agriculture scene typically come from a gardening or activist background.
A country garden in the background would be an added win.
John Piper saw the large and slightly melancholy garden as the background for a whole succession of complicated love affairs.
