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Articles found in Topic Tag: Landscape Design

Periods

When we picture the gardens of the Roman period, our minds often leap to grand courtyards and marble statues, yet the reality was far more varied and influential than such images suggest.

People

Robert Marnock (1800-89) was a Scottish landscape gardener, designer, curator, nurseryman, head gardener, garden writer and editor who designed many gardens across Britain.

Places

Inspired by the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition of 1910, Lord Egerton decided to install his own Japanese Garden at Tatton Park.

People / Places

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

People / Places

Take a walk around the landscape altered and de-formalised by Capability Brown in the 18th Century.

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.

Topics

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

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.