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    Make a Splash

    Jun 15, 2022 5 minutes

    “Any opportunity to use water should be taken.” So wrote Dame Sylvia Crowe in her seminal book, Garden Design, which you’ll find on every garden designer’s bookshelf. It’s a maxim that many of us follow, although most designers will also heed the caveat Crowe added: “provided it can be suited to the particular circumstances.” As with so many aspects of design, making sure a new water feature suits the scale of the site and the location planned for it really is the key.

    Whether you opt for quiet reflection or playful splashing jets, the moods water can create in the garden are as diverse as the forms it can take. “It adds a lovely extra dimension; both the sound and the sight of it creates a very romantic atmosphere, I think,” says garden designer Butter Wakefield (). Butter finds water

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