Favorite Style Garden

Which expression of garden art / garden style that we have studied this semester resonated most strongly with you personally?  Explain why.



       Throughout the semester, I liked how we examined several different types of garden art and styles. The different features within them made the different styles unique and easy to remember. I think that my personal favorite were the Victorian style country gardens.This was known as the "Arts and Crafts Garden". This was a new fashion and style of gardens created through Gertrude Jekyll and Edward Lutyens. This style was named to be to the Art and Crafts movement which was meant to express romantic and folk styles of decoration. I loved the quaint and charming essence about them that separated them from the older more grand scale medieval gardens of the early to mid 1800's. 

The content of these gardens provided them with unique style and originality. One of these features was the country cottage plants. These plants were close to the house and also bedded around the house in a unique way. Lutyens created and designed the overall layout ad structure of the garden while Gertrude completed the plant layout and contents in the garden. Her bedding skills were phenomenal. Their work together was impeccable and quite originally making it nearly impossible for any other artist to replicate. The architectural features such as the terraces, steps, detailed walks, walls and water features were sharp touches to the garden. However, Gertrude softened these touches with the detailed and intricate low bedding arrangements within the garden. It helped to merge the house and the garden together as one which resulted in a beautiful scenic landscape.

I enjoyed this garden for its originality and unique features when compared to other gardens. I also love flower gardens over lots of shrubbery and tall tree gardens. After taking this class I have learned that informal gardens are far more appealing to me than formal gardens. 




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Victorian Villa Format and Layout Design

1. Form and style of the Victorian Villa


The Victorian villa garden was heavily influenced through the society and culture at that time. This culture was an expression of wealth, power, education, fashion and possessions. It was largely a status symbol. At this time the middle class held a lot of power within society due to political and economic taxes raised for the wealthier classes of society.

The gardens took a place within a more natural than nature landscape similar to Capability Brown. The citizens at this time were having a rather difficult time with having a mix of nature and art within the same space of a garden. Therefore, Bateman and Cooke designed a garden together and wanted integrate both nature and art into the garden. Together they created Biddulph Grange through hiding different areas of the garden from one another which is quite brilliant. They did this through utilizing heaps of rocks and thick planted shrubs that locked close together creating a tight design. This design consisted of Italianate terraces and were connected by steps that enclosed small scale flower patches.

Another important figure at this time names Joe Paxton helped create the first glasshouse (we know as a greenhouse), the rock garden, which was a new idea and also, the emperor fountain. Each of these features added a new element to the Victorian Villa. The curvi-linear glasshouse was such an interesting feature to the garden because it was so different and it added such a new and beautiful element to it. This indoor garden allowed for more plants and flowers to be kept year round and the start of exotic plants was present as well. It was so important that the Queen even stated how miraculous it was as she went through it. Unfortunately burned down and all of the plants were lost.

However, Paxton visited London several years after that with plans to build a new glasshouse, "Crystal Palace". It was beautiful and the it took 2,000 mean and eighteen months to build on a 19 acres lot. Overall, the Crystal Palace added to the symbol and wealth and fashion statement through the large number of visitors and the largest enclosed space for a total of five years at the time. Culturally, it supported wealth and popularity and Paxton received his knighthood from Queen Victoria for the work he did.


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