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Funding for the scholarship fund came from some of Phelps' clients <br />in the Lake Minnetonka area. <br />3.Elements of an Estate Garden <br />The completed garden of an estate incorporated many elements that <br />worked together as a whole to bring about a total design.Elements <br />representative of estate gardens in general included the following <br />list.Phelps incorporated these elements into the gardens he did <br />in the area. <br />0 Geometric forms and fanciful garden shapes such as a four <br />leaf clover <br />0 Borders of the gardens and lawns were often hedges <br />0 Color coordinated gardens <br />0 Architectural structures as focal points of the garden area <br />such as gates, gazebos, garden houses <br />0 Rose gardens <br />0 Perrenial gardens <br />0 Garden walls or hedges as enclosures that define "outdoor" <br />rooms <br />0 Water features such as pools and fountains <br />0 Large canopy trees <br />0 Highly manicured lawns <br />In developing gardens incorporating these elements, Phelps paid <br />particular attention to proportion, or the relationship of one <br />element to another.Phelps was concerned with "the scale with <br />which one thing is related to another, the house with the lawn, the <br />gazebo with the rose garden, the pool with the terrace or the steps <br />with the wall."It is the Committee's desire to continue this