Two Irish gardens inspire herbaceous borders. Since the late nineteenth century when English garden writer William Robinson (1838-1935) encouraged the herbaceous border rather than beds of annuals, the border has been an important part of garden design. Once garden designer Gertrude Jekyll…
Boston Flower Show honors Capability Brown. Last week the Boston Flower and Garden Show honored England's eighteenth century gardener to the King, Lancelot Capability Brown. For months Brown has been in the news quite a bit because 2016 was his three…
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…
Variety marked eighteenth century English garden. How well I remember my visit to the garden at Stourhead, built in the mid 1700s. We drove a couple of hours west of London, near Mere, Wiltshire to find Stourhead which today covers…
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…