As three women sat on my piazza... Understandingly one of them said, "I suppose you are a bit tired of landscaped gardens?" "Indeed I am", I confessed, "I'll go further, I no longer like a landscaped garden. If the ground surrounding a house is beyond the requirements of a mere setting for the house - connecting it with the ground so to speak - let us call it foundation planting, I'd be inclined to fill it with little forests and thickets, and if the owners wanted a garden, certainly use all my persuasive powers to make them have a sensible garden...