The Garden Landscape Guide
Floral tribute to QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1926-2022: flowers from the people
13 September 2022 @ 12:27 pm
A wonderful floral tribute to Queen Elizabeth II was made by host of British people and overseas visitors. The first bunches of flowers were laid outside the gates of Buckingham Palace almost as soon as her death was announced. London’s florists rose to the occasion and the carpets of flowers spread to the gates of […]
Where is this garden, famous for its sub-tropical planting?
7 February 2021 @ 12:52 pm
The clue may be unhelpful! Please click this link to find the garden’s identity, to see its place on a map and to watch a video about the gardens
Geoffrey Jellicoe, Jordan Peterson, post-Postmodernism and Metamodernism
20 October 2020 @ 7:03 pm
Garden designers and landscape architects have had an uneasy relationship with “styles” for two centuries. In the nineteenth century it was a central issue, with much talk of: the superiority of the ‘English’ style to the ‘French’ style the ‘Gardenesque’ style the ‘Formal’ style and the ‘Informal’ style. In the twentieth century, led by Modernist […]
River Thames Landscape and Gardens
6 October 2020 @ 12:47 pm
Jane Webb published The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century in 1827 and, through it, met her future husband, John Claudius Loudon. A pioneering sci-fi novel, it envisages London in 300 years time. In different ways, Jane and John had shared interests in gardens and futurology. This passage from The Mummy envisages the Thames’ […]
Landscape architecture podcasts
3 July 2020 @ 6:27 pm
See podcast list on Landscape Architects Association website
2019 Chelsea Flower Show Garden Designs
12 October 2019 @ 6:44 pm
While admiring the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show, I thought of a name for an emerging style of garden design. The primary characteristic of the Belief Style is a new view of Nature: as simultaneously endangered, life-enhancing and in need of conservation by and for humanity. Perhaps it will earn a place on the Gardenvisit chart […]
Tour of Persian Gardens
18 February 2019 @ 6:46 am
The Cultural Landscape Association (CLA) is a non-profit organization specialized in the area of Cultural Landscape and the only institution in Iran that focuses on cultural landscapes interdisciplinary. The Association’s mission is to strengthen the role of cultural landscape in sustainable development in Iran and the Middle East region, by building the capacity of all […]
James Veitch and Sons nurserymen and garden designers
8 February 2019 @ 7:58 am
Veitch’s Chelsea nursery ceased trading in 1914, rather appropriately for the greatest horticultural firm in British history. It was founded in the eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century took advantage of peace, prosperity and sea power to engage in plant collecting on a world scale. It brought 1281 new plants into cultivation and undertook […]
Gardens of the Château de Vullierens
6 February 2019 @ 4:30 pm
We are pleased to welcome the gardens of the Château de Vullierens to the Gardenvisit guide. Just inland from Lac Lemen (Lake Geneva) it looks south to the Alps and Mont Blanc. Four important styles of garden design have influenced the layout. When first built, as a strongly fortified house, it was set in a […]
Stupas, conservation, heritage, historic gardens in Ladakh
16 July 2018 @ 12:26 pm
Heritage conservation is founded on a modernist view of the supremacy of reason and science over faith, religion and belief. This leads to the conservation policy of detaching objects from their cultural contexts and freezing them in time. If the culture that produced the object has died, this may be justifiable. But a different policy […]