Two Things Challenge - Nature and Civilisation

It's the first pic, but I wanted to get all these other ones in as they are similar and all help to make the same point, and they display some lovely autumn colours. All, apart from the third one (which comes from someone's garden and to get permission to take it I had to do some gesticulating though a window, so I want it to be worth my while!)are taken of shrubs growing against walls. These are free-growing shrubs, which, left to their own devices would go all over the place (as natural things do) but have grow up against the angular shapes of civilisation, or the buildings, and taken on their regular, controlled shapes. I think the tension between the two makes for their effect.

First pic is a cute topiary garden, which encapsulates one way of civilising nature into a formal garden. I've been round Versailles, so I've seen the best of them, but I like this one on our own doorstep.