16 Facts About English garden

English landscape garden, called English landscape park or simply the English garden, is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

English garden usually included a lake, sweeps of gently rolling lawns set against groves of trees, and recreations of classical temples, Gothic ruins, bridges, and other picturesque architecture, designed to recreate an idyllic pastoral landscape.

New style that became known as the English garden was invented by landscape designers William Kent and Charles Bridgeman, working for wealthy patrons, including Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; and banker Henry Hoare.

English garden's gardens were designed to complement the Palladian architecture of the houses he built.

English garden collaborated with Kent on several major gardens, providing the botanical expertise which allowed Kent to realize his architectural visions.

Related searches

Between 1733 and 1736, he redesigned the English garden, adding lawns sloping down to the edge of the river and a small cascade.

Bridgeman had built a series of English garden features including a grotto of Venus on the slope along the river Cherwell, connected by straight alleys.

English garden placed eyecatchers, pieces of classical architecture, to decorate the landscape, and made use of the ha-ha, a concealed ditch that kept grazing animals out of the garden while giving an uninterrupted vista from within.

Kent remade the lake in a more natural shape, and created a new kind of English garden, which took visitors on a tour of picturesque landscapes.

Brown's contribution was to simplify the English garden by eliminating geometric structures, alleys, and parterres near the house and replacing them with rolling lawns and extensive views out to isolated groups of trees, making the landscape seem even larger.

English garden compared his own role as a garden designer to that of a poet or composer.

English garden believed that the foreground should be the realm of art, that the middle ground should have a parkland character of the type created by Brown and that the background should have a wild and 'natural' character.

Appropriate style of English garden buildings was Gothic rather than Neoclassical, and exotic planting was more likely to be evergreen conifers rather than flowering plants, replacing "the charm of bright, pleasant scenery in favour of the dark and rugged, gloomy and dramatic".

English garden noted that Chinese gardens avoided formal rows of trees and flower beds, and instead placed trees, plants, and other garden features in irregular ways to strike the eye and create beautiful compositions, with an understatement criticizing the formal compositions of the gardens at the Palace of Versailles of Louis XIV of France.

Continental European "English garden" is characteristically on a smaller scale; many are in or on the edge of cities, rather than in the middle of the countryside.

Second style of English garden, which became popular during the 20th century in France and northern Europe, is based on the style of the late 19th-century English cottage garden, with abundant mixed planting of flowers, intended to appear largely unplanned.