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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 />o Geometric forms and fancifLl garden shapes such as a four <br />leaf clover <br />o Borders of the gardens and lawns were often hedges <br />o Color coordinated gardens <br />o Architectural structures as focal ,, ints of the garden area <br />su_,, as gates, gazebos, garden houses <br />o Rose gardens <br />o Perrenial gardens <br />c Uarden walls or hedges as enclosures that define "outdoor" <br />rooms <br />o Water features such as pools and fountains <br />o Large canopy trees <br />o 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 tt.ing is related to another, the house with _ lawn, the <br />gazebo with the rose garden, the pool with the terrace or the steps <br />with the %al 1 . " It is the Committee's (iesi re to continue this <br />i V <br />