Enclosures for the Outdoor Living Room
A feature on garden boundaries and privacy enclosures for residential yards. It discusses stone and brick walls, hedges and lattice fences, arches and gates, and decorative elements like pergolas and stone retaining walls as ways to create intimate garden spaces. It notes Vermont New England and Midwest examples and practical materials such as privet hedges, arbor vitae, and Virginia creeper for screening.
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New England
Middle West
Sharon
Garden Borders and Planting Styles by Cushing Smith
Landscape architect Cushing Smith describes two garden borders. The Informal Garden uses no fixed arching boundary and a wide border to let background trees like dogwoods and viburnums contrast with shrubs such as Spirea and Barberry. Understory wildflowers and ferns thrive beneath their shade.
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Cushing Smith
Winnetka Man Leads U of C Alumni Reunion Fest
James A. Donovan of Winnetka chairs the alumni reunion committee for the University of Chicago event set for Saturday June 7. The gathering centers on Stagg Field with the Shanty ceremonies around a life size replica lunch room. Classes 1904 1909 1914 and 1919 mark special anniversaries.
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Wilmette
Hawthorn Lane
Winnetka
University of Chicago
Stagg Field
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