Landscape painting inspired eighteenth century English garden. The English garden took a new direction in the early 1700s. The landscape became an expression of art, fashioned with materials like land form, plants, stone, and water. The aristocratic landowners, who fostered…
English landscape garden reflected baroque tradition. In landscape history it is important to note the influence on a particular period's garden design or style. Nothing happens in a vacuum. It is the Dutch that gave us the word 'landscape' but they…
Capability Brown's Abbey landscape receives funding. We just finished celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lancelot Capability Brown (1716-1783). I have enjoyed reading the posts about the celebration in England that included many events during the year and even a…
Politics influenced modern English garden. One would think that politics is the farthest thing from any sort of garden style or fashion. A garden is, after all, about the design of a piece of land with plants. Tim Richardson in…
Growing vegetables required enclosed garden. Recently I received a gift of a seed starting kit with several vegetable seed packets. Unfortunately, I cannot grow vegetables in my garden because we have too much shade. Today with influence from groups like…