Formal Domestic Design
The owners of this property did not want deciduous trees dropping leaves, and they didn't want to spend a lot of time sweeping. Instead they chose a garden in the modern formal style, which makes good use of a number of elements: hedges, topiary, ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Your Garden Questions Answered: Formal Gardens
If you like formal garden design and are perhaps thinking of building such a garden it is important to not only consider the common themes and materials of such gardens. The use of correct plants is essential to a great formal garden. Some of the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Formal gardens
A formal design may be perfectly symmetrical and make much use of straight lines, circles and other geometrical shapes, or it may not, though there will always be a sense of careful balance. In a formal garden you will find immaculately trimmed ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Money Saving Design Ideas
Phil visits a garden beaming with terrific design ideas and lots of little tricks that could save you money. In the front garden the owners opted for a formal style garden, full of neat repetitive shapes and clipped hedges. It really suits the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Creeping Fig - Plant of the Week
Don showed how classy creeping figs can look when used in a formal garden design. The figs were trained to fill recesses in a masonry wall, so that they formed perfect green rectangular shapes. The fig rectangles provided a wonderful backdrop for ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Fake Stone Courtyard
A viewer emailed wanting design suggestions for the 'dead side' of the house. Her view from a picture window in the formal dining room was a weedy side passage and an ugly fence. This side passage is very shady. The houses are fairly close ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Stan Allen
Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (and traveling throughout the world), this exquisitely designed and produced catalog explores the formal aspects of Richard Meier's architecture. Over his ... [... more]
Random House |
Phillip Lopate
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward ... [... more]
Random House |
Don's Landscaping Tips: Good Geometry
The use of good geometry in garden design creates a spectacular formal courtyard in a small area. Matching the pinky-grey brick of the house with limestone pavers can give a natural looking backdrop for geometrically placed plants and other ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Formal Cactus Garden
Don visited a cutting edge garden belonging to Gitta and Gunther Rembel. The garden is situated in bushland, and takes elements from the natural landscape as well as borrowing sparky ideas from other countries. The Mogul gardens of northern India ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Native Plants for Formal Gardens
This week Dean wanted to make you think about how you look at native plants and how you use them in your garden. Dean is always getting comments about how people don't like natives in their garden because they think they are scrappy, messy and ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
A.C. Graham
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw ... [... more]
Random House |
