ABSTRACT
Landscape architects all too often get a poor deal, called in too late when the important spatial decisions have already been made, expected to fill with unobtrusive low-maintenance planting the holes of unwanted space around the proud objects that architects have imposed. Even gardens for private houses are too often an afterthought:
House and garden usually do not arise together and seldom at the same time. Mostly a house is built first and the garden made around it, but if there was a garden first, little of it remains undisturbed by the time the house is built. House-building is always a drastic intervention into an existing order, if only that of the biological society of weeds which covers and protects the earth. Garden-making is an extensive reordering set out according to new and inventive rules, yet always in sympathy with nature.
