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Articles found in Topic Tag: Garden History

People / Places

Brown started work at Wimpole in 1767 and was one of more than 250 of his countrywide commissions.

People / Places

Invited in 1779 to redesign the college gardens of Cambridge University, Brown envisaged uniting them into a single park. Unfortunately his grand plan was never realised but they can still be explored today.

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Take our family friendly activity sheets to your local park or garden to uncover its history and be inspired to create your own historic garden

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.

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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.