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Articles found in Topic Tag: Garden History

Periods

The Interwar Years (1918–1939) marked a pivotal shift in garden design, as landscapes responded to both personal grief and broader cultural transformation.

Periods

Victorian gardens offer a window into a world where nature, design, and innovation came together in dazzling harmony.

Styles

What springs to mind when you think about medieval gardens? Probably monks, monasteries and herbs first but you might remember seeing people sitting in a walled or hedged garden.

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.

Topics

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

Places

The beautiful Grade II* listed Georgian garden at Painswick features a fantastical landscape of deceptive vistas, serpentine paths, pools, woodlands, follies and a grand formal vegetable garden.

Topics

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

Places

The gardens at Levens Hall are best known as the home of the world’s oldest topiary garden, an extraordinary collection of ancient box and yew trees sculpted into abstract and geometric shapes.