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The drawings in the exhibition were chosen by Jane Brown and are included in her book ‘The Art and Architecture of English Gardens’. The exhibition displays some eighty images relating to the design of...
Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...
Vauxhall Gardens developed during the 18th century as one of several London gardens where entertainments were offered. Shows the extension of the theatrical potential of Renaissance gardens as well as the...
Meanwhile Gardens is a community park built on derelict ground in Paddington, West London. The decision to build it was made by local people. With advice from technical experts, and help from the Manpower...
The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...
Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...
The invention of the sunken fence or ‘ha-ha’ set designers free to harmonise the surrounding countryside with the garden, while loosening up the regularity of previous gardens. Locations include a...
Under the reign of George III there was a revival of interest in English gothic with mock castles and ruins becoming the central feature for many landscape gardens. Buildings such as follies and treehouses...
After the death of Capability Brown in 1783, Humphrey Repton became recognised as his natural successor and used visible terraces and flowers to decorate the landscape. However, both Brown and Repton were...
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...
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