Definition: (from Wikipedia)
“Allée is traditionally a walkway with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side , which is used,
as its French source venir (“to come”) indicates;
to emphasize the “coming to,” or arrival at a “focal point” or an architectural feature.
In most cases, an “avenue” is planted with all of the same species or cultivar
so as to give a uniform appearance along the full length of the avenue”.
Landscape designer Margie Grace and I collaborated on our “Olive Allee” here in Montecito.
I love “allees”; the symmetry and the canopy is beautiful.
The cypress tree in an Anduze pot is the focal point this way!
UH OH!!
I need another “focal point looking this way!
This is the cypress in the pot at the end of the “allee”!
I’m not sure what this “focal point” is; The house is part of it!
Here is an enormous allee of old oak trees; Centered on the front door!
(a very old and gorgeous plantation in the South)
The centered tree is this focal point!
(I think this is in the South of France)
Another gorgeous one, this time the axis is on the middle arched door!!
Allees are a lovely addition to a garden!
They “contain the view” and lead you toward their “focal point”!!
Landscape designer Margie Grace and I collaborated on our “Olive Allee” here in Montecito.
More about our Garden here. It tells the story of all the challenges!
She does a magnificent job!!!
At every kind of style!!!