So, garden design in the 18th century, and during the
period of the early 20th century when the Colonial Revival style was
developing, relied on formal regularity, as seen in the garden plan,
below right, but softened and relieved
by the innate, less regular, organic forms of plants, as in the Cherokee
rose (right), and by a whole host of other
plants from the smallest herbaceous bulb to mature trees, seen here
in the Benjamin Waller garden (below).
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| Benjamin Waller
Garden, the restoration of which was enabled by the sketch at right, showing
the Tower Hill garden which was based on the memories of his grand-daughter,
Eliza Waller Blow, of the Benjamin Waller House garden. |
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Miss
Lucy Pegram Blow's Copy Sketch of Benjamin Waller Garden Design at
Tower Hill, Sussex County, Virginia. Courtesy of The College of William
and Mary |
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