Famous English Garden Designers

Wherever you live and garden you can take inspiration from the uk s hottest designers and their finest gardens.

Famous english garden designers. Arne maynard garden design. Famous garden designers many landscape garden designers were also architects and helped design both the house and grounds capability brown the acknowledged master of landscape gardening william kent humphrey repton. The most creative landscape designers think beyond flowers shrubs and other decorative plants to create outdoor spaces that are functional unique and in tune with nature s glorious harmonies.

His romantic gardens nestle around historic houses creating a timeless feel with structural designs pleached trees and strong shaped topiary mixed with soft planting of lavender and roses. Jardín inglés is a style of landscape garden which emerged in england in the early 18th century and spread across europe replacing the more formal. The english landscape garden also called english landscape park or simply the english garden french.

The legendary gardens of england have long influenced residential landscapes worldwide and are admired for their lush green lawns hedges and drifts and borders of breathtaking flowers grasses and herbs of course you don t have to live in great britain to enjoy the pleasures of cottage and english gardens with basic design principles and knowledge of plants that grow well in your region. Landscape gardens victorian gardens. In 1948 he became the founding president of the international federation of landscape architects ifla.

The english landscape architect and theoretician had a vast knowledge of landscape history writing several books including italian gardens of the renaissance with the help of j c. Luis barragán 1902 1988 mexican planner of public gardens. Chris baines living english horticulturalist and naturalist.

The english garden is one of the most successful exports of all time travelling around the globe gathering fresh nuances along the way. Kristina taylor s new book women garden designers. 1900 to the present garden art press 70 catalogues their outstanding creations from gertrude jekyll s lush formal garden at upton grey.

Designer tricia guild recently described arne maynard as one of the finest garden designers working today. Today we find it as inspiring as ever. Great garden designers by sarah topp when you visit the many beautiful formal gardens we have in britain you will realise that there has been the hand of a great designer at work.