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Articles found in Location Tag: Britain

Periods

Monasteries, castles, the rich and the poor all had gardens in medieval times but what did they look like and what did they grow?

Periods / Styles

Rooted in Enlightenment thinking and the rise of the picturesque, Georgian gardens became spaces where nature was artfully framed rather than tamed.

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Long before solar panels and smart irrigation, a different kind of energy was being quietly trialled in gardens across Europe: electricity.

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Was it simply an item of garden equipment or instead a weapon of war?

Styles

The English Landscape Garden developed throughout the eighteenth century and has been called our greatest contribution to art and culture.

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Each year parks and gardens face a range of modern-day threats that can compromise their value and long-term survival.

People

The Picturesque was a very popular idea in the mid to late eighteenth century, initially focussing on viewing the natural landscape as if it were a picture in a frame, although it later evolved into a more complex set of aesthetic ideals and influenced fashions in English landscape garden design.

People

In a time when women were expected to stay in the drawing room, Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934) was digging in the dirt, often quite literally reshaping the landscape of British gardening.

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Parks and gardens contain lots of interesting features, many of which may have been built years, decades or centuries ago. How many can you spot in your local park or garden and when do you think they were created?