Early English Gardens

Plague, war and Henry the VIII

The Tudor Knot garden. Used interwoven herbs and floral design.

Tudor and Eliabethan period gardens. fashionable well into the 17th C England.

French-Mollet, Le Jardin de Plaisir, Vaux le Vicomte; Dutch-espalier, topiary; Chinese-Sir William temple 'sharawadgi'

"sharawadgi" guy. Wrote Upon the Gardens of Epicurus.

Case study of Eclecticism. Brown didnt touch this, thankfully. French influence on English Garden design.

Organic design. Grotto tunnel

Charles Bridgeman. Opened up the view of the landscape

Dubbed the father of modern gardening

Palladian Style. By Vanbrugh. Kent's Serpentine lake.

Eye catchers. Foreground, Middle, Back. Artificial Ruins. Statues.

Bridgeman plan 1715, very linear. Architectural neo-classicism. Kent softened the plan, palladian bridge. Temple of ancient virtue. Capability Brown in 1750

Village in foreground, pantheon in distance.

Return to the purity of classical form

after the painter Claude Lorraine

Series of viewpoints

meant to follow a prescribed path

Tells a story

William hogarth, analysis of beauty

Famous for lakes, and grasses flowing right up to the house. Planted in clumps

Overlay effect, with plans and sometimes with old writings, monks etc.

Capability brown flooded the river to make the bridge more fitting. The tree plan looks mothy after Brown changed it.

Smooth delicate, regular, harmonious

rough, gloomy, violent, gigantic, untouched

Edmund burke 1757

Sublime style. Sketches by William Gilpin

Inspired by writings of Rousseau. Structures in rustic style. Somewhere a hermit would live.

Gardens of artifact.

Design of the Chinese- Kew gardens.

The "Red Book" with lift-up flap revealing proposed design.