July 2006
by David Bentley and Elizabeth Churchill
Rose-Covered Cottages
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Design: Rose-Covered Cottages Architectural details for gardening by the sea David Bentley and Elizabeth Churchill Surrounding any home with an abundance of flowering plants not only enhances the structure but also helps to integrate the building into the natural environment. Perimeter planting beds around a home's foundation, laid out in picturesque curves, soften the edge of the structure, merging it into the landscape. This is especially true for homes at the coast, where the lack of trees and other larger vegetation can give a house without added landscaping flourishes a particularly desolate, even tenuous look. In such cases, simple features
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