Make your garden look ancient even if your house is brand new. Follies taken from “Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture,” which came out in 1816 and was written by H. Repton with the help of his son J. Adey Repton, F.A.S. Collections of the University of Wisconsin.

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“This architectural entrance or door forms the Boundary between the dressed-pleasure Ground of the Menagerie at Woburn Abbey.” Page 273. Image © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Artwork itself in the public domain. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/A7D3GFASQV47YE8R
“At Woburn Abbey at the back of it, is this Pavilion, constructed with branches and cones of Fir trees.” Page 273. Image © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Artwork itself in the public domain. via https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARNROAEXKQQ7R38Y/pages/A7D3GFASQV47YE8R

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