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By Rylan Michael
The English garden as we know it today owes most to two Victorians, William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll, and the influence of their ideas. William Robinson was greatly influenced by having seen plants growing naturally in alpine meadows on his travels abroad.
Gertrude Jekyll planted gardens as well as writing on the subject. She had a strong sense of colour, planting flowers and foliage for particular colour effect, but called attention also to leaf shapes and texture, especially of grey-leaved plants.
Many of the gardens planted by Gertrude Jekyll were for large country houses (often designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens) and were tended by gardeners. But the later emulated by all the Tudor nobility. The flower beds were laid out in a knot garden pattern and other characteristics included mazes, labyrinths, gazebos or pavilions, topiary, sundials, trellis and arbours. Vegetable gardens were usually walled and separate from the main garden. After 1660 the influence of Le Notre made itself felt briefly: grand parterres replaced simple knots and vast lakes and canals replaced the gentle fountain, while broad beech-lined avenues stretched out to the horizon. Though the English could not match the Italians or French as designers, nor the Dutch as growers, the closely-cut lawn was one feature of English gardens which attracted international admiration.
One of the first gardens in the grand formal style was at Hampton Court Palace, began in England. There was a general return to a classical and geometric layout but it was distinguished by cluttered ornamentation and over-patterned, brightly coloured flower beds. The villa garden really came into its own in the second half of the nineteenth century with the rapid growth of urban, industrial civilization.
Men like London and Wise set up the first commercial nurseries and began selling plants throughout the land.
The twentieth century has seen large gardens become an economic impossibility and small ones multiply. Garden cities have been conceived and built, each house having its own individual garden.
Gertrude Jekyll planted gardens as well as writing on the subject. She had a strong sense of colour, planting flowers and foliage for particular colour effect, but called attention also to leaf shapes and texture, especially of grey-leaved plants.
Many of the gardens planted by Gertrude Jekyll were for large country houses (often designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens) and were tended by gardeners. But the later emulated by all the Tudor nobility. The flower beds were laid out in a knot garden pattern and other characteristics included mazes, labyrinths, gazebos or pavilions, topiary, sundials, trellis and arbours. Vegetable gardens were usually walled and separate from the main garden. After 1660 the influence of Le Notre made itself felt briefly: grand parterres replaced simple knots and vast lakes and canals replaced the gentle fountain, while broad beech-lined avenues stretched out to the horizon. Though the English could not match the Italians or French as designers, nor the Dutch as growers, the closely-cut lawn was one feature of English gardens which attracted international admiration.
One of the first gardens in the grand formal style was at Hampton Court Palace, began in England. There was a general return to a classical and geometric layout but it was distinguished by cluttered ornamentation and over-patterned, brightly coloured flower beds. The villa garden really came into its own in the second half of the nineteenth century with the rapid growth of urban, industrial civilization.
Men like London and Wise set up the first commercial nurseries and began selling plants throughout the land.
The twentieth century has seen large gardens become an economic impossibility and small ones multiply. Garden cities have been conceived and built, each house having its own individual garden.
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