Plant collecting reached a level in England in the early 18th century that it had never had before because of the shipping industry. Plants could be gather from remote countries like America, shipped across the sea, and planted in an English…
Nichols says in her book English Pleasure Gardens: “The fruitful age of Queen Elizabeth [who was the monarch from 1558 to 1603] brought both the planning and the planting of the loveliest English gardens very nearly to perfection.” What does she…
Rousham in England, designed by William Kent in the 18th century in the new natural landscape style. Rose Standish Nichols writes in her book of 1902 English Pleasure Gardens, just reissued, about the tension between a formal garden design and the more…