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.
Overall, the gardens were utilized for
https://www.google.dk/search?q=victorian+villa+garden&biw=1280&bih=578&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-MpHVYjcBsHusAGJiYGACg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgrc=pVSsOkh8BHdEZM%253A%3BW85y9sM1ctSZ2M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.countrylovers.co.uk%252Fhort%252Fvgardn2.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.countrylovers.co.uk%252Fhort%252Fvicgardn.htm%3B241%3B315
https://www.google.dk/search?q=victorian+villa+garden&biw=1280&bih=578&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-MpHVYjcBsHusAGJiYGACg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgrc=ZSFwxacqf2bMqM%253A%3ByQ78XeOa_mgpoM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthegoodstuffguide.files.wordpress.com%252F2009%252F06%252Fvictorian-villa.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thegoodstuffguide.com%252Fmy-take-on-the-vegetable-garden%252F%3B510%3B300
https://www.google.dk/search?q=victorian+villa+garden&biw=1280&bih=578&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-MpHVYjcBsHusAGJiYGACg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=victorian+villa+garden+james+bateman&imgrc=JlHG7OE8A6oDKM%253A%3Bg-_PLwxd6jGrrM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.nationaltrust.org.uk%252Fcs%252FSatellite%253Fblobcol%253Durldata%2526blobheader%253Dimage%25252Fjpeg%2526blobheadername1%253DContent-Disposition%2526blobheadername2%253DMDT-Type%2526blobheadername3%253DContent-Type%2526blobheadervalue1%253Dinline%25253B%252Bfilename%25253D440%2525252F409%2525252F164524-biddulph-water-buffalo-sculpture-940x529_thumb_220x0%2525252C0.jpg%2526blobheadervalue2%253Dabinary%25253B%252Bcharset%25253DUTF-8%2526blobheadervalue3%253Dimage%25252Fjpeg%2526blobkey%253Did%2526blobtable%253DMungoBlobs%2526blobwhere%253D1349119746294%2526ssbinary%253Dtrue%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.nationaltrust.org.uk%252Farticle-1356400599248%252F%3B220%3B124
No comments:
Post a Comment