The English Landscape Garden in Europe by Michael Symes

The English Landscape Garden in Europe by Michael Symes

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A garden ‘in the English style’ is commonly used to denote a landscape garden in Europe, while the term ‘landscape garden’ is used for layouts that are naturalistic in plan and resemble natural scenery, though they might be highly contrived and usually large in scale. The landscape garden took hold in mainland Europe from about 1760.

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The English Landscape Garden in Europe by Michael Symes

A garden in the English style is commonly used to denote a landscape garden in Europe, while the term landscape garden is used for layouts that are naturalistic in plan and resemble natural scenery, though they might be highly contrived and usually large in scale. The landscape garden took hold in mainland Europe from about 1760.
A perfect read for a gardener with a love of garden history, it is full of facts, describing garden features of note that can still be seen on the continent today and that reflect the Brownite style
The English Garden Magazine
Michael Symes is an author, lecturer and garden historian. He specialises in 18th-century gardens in Britain and continental Europe.
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ISBN 13 9781848023574
ISBN 10 184802357X
Title The English Landscape Garden in Europe
Author Michael Symes
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Historic England
Year published 2016-04-15
Number of pages 136
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