I am still reading Melanie Louise Simo’s fabulous book Loudon and the Landscape, a biography of John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843). Architect, garden designer, and writer John Claudius Loudon What strikes me about his story is that Loudon really sought to make gardening…
A British immigrant, Henry Shaw (1800-1889) built his St. Louis, Missouri landscape in John Claudius Loudon’s gardenesque style. He bequeathed his property to the city fathers who named it the Missouri Botanical Garden. A spring show of tulips at today's Missouri…
New York seedsman Grant Thorborn ( 1773-1863) had been a friend of fellow Scotsman and landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) in London. In her book Loudon and the Landscape Melanie Louise Simo wrote that Loudon and Thorburn enjoyed after dinner conversation…
John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), a successor to both William Kent and Capability Brown, practiced a landscape design with a picturesque look. In 1836 he drew this plan for N. M. Rothchild in which he proposed a serpentine or winding road…
The picturesque English garden style of the eighteenth century included garden structures, like temples, ruins, obelisks, and classical seats. S. Lang wrote an essay called ”Genesis of the Landscape Garden” in the book The Picturesque Garden and its Influence outside the British Isles, edited by Nicolaus…