First thoughts on a garden are best inspired by the ground with any feature at all, such as an undulation or a rocky outcrop. There is your inspiration.

If you have a featureless piece of ground, just lie back on an open porch and watch the clouds forming on the blue sky and imagine them the groups of shrubs and trees and the blue sky the grassy glades and in no time you will have the loveliest landscape plan.

I have often seen beautiful cloud plans that I wish could be transferred to a piece of land awaiting such a scheme before it disappeared from sight!