Mrs. Ibolya PETHŐ BUBICS
Three concepts for one garden (2)

(Summary)

As my clients had no initial idea concerning the look of their future garden they asked me to draw up three different concept plans with rough cost projections to help them in the decision making. My initial concept plans had to be based on such strong characteristics as the plainness, flatness of the some 5380 m2 site, the neo-baroque style of the 300 m2 house with its very own difficulties such as having no design possibilities for a perpendicular, straight access from the street front. The garage is situated at the back, behind the house; hence the vehicular traffic had to cross the garden.

It was very perplexing that the existing drive, running perpendicular to the site boundary, seemed to dominate the garden and I made a constant effort to avoid any emphases falling on vehicular routes in the new designs. In my second concept plan I have designed the front garden in a faintly baroque style complementing the building, which gives a very good contrast to the Mediterranean back garden with its calm, contemplating atmosphere, cosy, relaxed corners, and the hilly, meandering landscape with the pond and the stream. In my third design I drew up a garden plan, which is completely different in atmosphere and its characteristics from the baroque style building. This plan contains natural looking, extensive green spaces, relatively small hard surfaces and low-maintenance herbaceous planting with small patches of bedding pants and roses.