Arts and Crafts GardensThe arts and crafts movement brought a distinctive new style to English gardens from the last quarter of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I. Victorian formal planting schemes were abandoned. The arts and crafts garden recalled the straight lines and formal plans of the Tudor period, scaled down and adapted to meet the requirements of the rising middle classes. Strong architectural plans provided a framework for cascades of colour, and vast borders of herbaceous perennials, interspersed with roses, poppies and sunflowers, recalled the haphazard tapestry of colour of an English cottage garden. |
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Page 148
... brick wall and the bricks , which absorb and retain the heat of the sun , helped to ripen the fruit . The training and pruning of these trees probably fell to William Scrubey and his gardeners , RIGHT : The outer skin of the kitchen ...
... brick wall and the bricks , which absorb and retain the heat of the sun , helped to ripen the fruit . The training and pruning of these trees probably fell to William Scrubey and his gardeners , RIGHT : The outer skin of the kitchen ...
Page 164
... brick arcade . RIGHT : The roughcast render and buttresses of Voysey's arbour and the green painted bench within echo the architecture of the main house . Voysey arranged the garden as a series of six rooms . On the highest terrace , to ...
... brick arcade . RIGHT : The roughcast render and buttresses of Voysey's arbour and the green painted bench within echo the architecture of the main house . Voysey arranged the garden as a series of six rooms . On the highest terrace , to ...
Page 182
... brick walls . Lutyens turned the small scale of these gardens to dramatic effect , drawing a series of sharp axial ... brick arcade enclosing two sides of a tank cloister in which originally the clear water acted as a mirror for shapely ...
... brick walls . Lutyens turned the small scale of these gardens to dramatic effect , drawing a series of sharp axial ... brick arcade enclosing two sides of a tank cloister in which originally the clear water acted as a mirror for shapely ...
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