English Garden, The. Part 6: Perfectly Dazzling (1840-1914)

Synopsis

With the variety and growth of suburban gardens, a gardener could create his own make-believe world, and with Chinese, Egyptian, rhododendron and rock gardens, and this is what he did. The surrounding countryside consisted of banks and belts of trees - the garden became enclosed simply to prevent others from seeing it. There are shots of the gardens at Biddulf (including an exotic Egptian court) and another garden complete with rockery and gnomes to which the owner wrote poems. There was an increasing interest in botany and by 1840 Kew Gardens had been established. The ostentatious Victorian garden developed during this period and there are shots of Queen Victoria’s seaside retreat at Osborne. Also shows cottage gardens which had also developed during the period.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

Year of production

1980

Availability

out of distribution

Uses

General audiences; landscape artists.*

Subjects

Architecture; Biology

Keywords

England; gardens; landscape design

Credits

Cast

John Gielgud

Production Company

Name

Thames Television

Distributor

Name

Granada Learning

Email

info@granada-learning.co.uk

Web

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Phone

0161-827 2927

Fax

0161-827 2966

Address

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