The Arts and Crafts Garden

     The Victorian Villa style garden was viewed as a traditional, informal and small garden next to the house in the early 1400's. The Tudor and Elizabethan styles were very influential in the more recent style and design of the "Arts and Crafts Garden" in the start of 1870. The wheels of fashion for the Victorian Villa style garden were turning and the search for a more informal style within a formal garden setting was desired. This desired for features such as gazebos and terraces within the garden. 
    People desired for a new style of garden therefore, two individuals played a role in transforming this wish. Robinson, a gardener and Blomfield an architect battled their ideas and beliefs about how the garden should be created. Robinson wanted the garden to be inspired by nature utilizing different plants which took more of a naturalist approach. Whereas, Blomfield thought that because the garden was in such close proximity of the house it should have the more formal Renaissance look to it. However, shortly after these individuals input to the Victorian Villa, the "Arts and Crafts Garden" emerged. 
     This "Arts and Crafts" garden stood for traditional craftsmanship through the utilization of simple forms of romantic decoration. Two individuals who played a huge role in this movement, were Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens in the mid 1800' s to early 1900's. Gertrude was an incredibly talented gardener and was well educated, which was rather unheard of at the time because most women did not attend schooling. Her ideas and talent involving planting and bedding within the Villa was inspirational and incredibly detailed. The gardens looked as if they were meant to be that way. She highlights the clear cut paths and bunches of plants within the garden well. It adds a contrast within the garden and carries a formal look within the more informal house setting. Lutyens was an architect that designed the overall layout of the gardens and the house which set up the stage for Gertrude to design the bedding and planting. Their work together created such beautiful gardens, one in particular is the Anne Hathaway garden that is rather large and sits on about 12 acres. 
     This fusion of house and garden that these two individuals created was rather incredible and difficult for anyone else to create. Impressionism was also introduced within Jekyll's gardens through an artist in whom she trained. This new garden carried a rather romantic and old fashioned air about it. 


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