The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution that
overthrew the parterres, avenues and canals of formal European-style
gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century. Thousands of
landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often looking so natural
that we hardly recognise them as the hand of man. Steered by brilliant
designers and visionary owners, the fashion for landscape gardens took
hold across the country. Using water, grass and trees, designers
softened lines and created seemingly natural planted park landscapes.
Landscape gardens were on a huge scale, and all the work was done by
hand. By the 1750s this had developed into the landscape park and garden
epitomised by 'Capability' Brown, the most famous of the
eighteenth-century garden designers. In this book by garden historian
Sarah Rutherford, discover Britain's greatest contribution to the visual
arts worldwide. This book is part of the Britain's Heritage series,
which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain's past,
and is the perfect way to get acquainted with landscape gardens in all
their variety.