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2. History of gardening - Wikipedia

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   The formal garden à la française, exemplified by the Gardens of Versailles, became the dominant horticultural style in Europe until the middle of the 18th century, when the English landscape garden and the French landscape garden acceded to dominance. In the 19th century, a welter of historical revivals and Romantic cottage-inspired gardening ...

3. List of horticulture and gardening books and publications

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   This list of horticulture and gardening books includes notable gardening books and journals, which can to aid in research and for residential gardeners in planning, planting, harvesting, and maintaining gardens. Gardening books encompass a variety of subjects from garden design, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, to shade gardens.

4. Jean-Marie Morel - Wikipedia

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   Jean Marie Morel. Jean-Marie Morel (28 March 1728 – 10 August 1810), the author of La Théorie des Jardins (Paris 1776), was a trained architect and surveyor, who produced a substantial and popular work advocating the "natural" landscape style of gardening in France, a French landscape garden.

5. William Robinson (gardener) - Wikipedia

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   "A Devonshire Cottage Garden, Cockington, Torquay" from The English Flower Garden, engraving from a photograph.. William Robinson: FLS (15 July 1838 – 12 May 1935) [1] was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular ...

6. French landscape garden - Wikipedia

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   The French landscape garden (French: jardin anglais, jardin à l'anglaise, jardin paysager, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) [1] is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques ...

7. Wilderness (garden history) - Wikipedia

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   In the Western history of gardening, from the 16th to early 19th centuries, a wilderness was a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden. [1] Though examples varied greatly, a typical English style was a number of geometrically-arranged compartments (often called "quarters") closed round by hedges ...

8. The Complete History of the White House Rose Garden You ... - AOL

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   The Rose Garden truly bloomed into its modern form under the Kennedys in 1962. After touring Europe’s grand gardens, President John F. Kennedy returned with a vision: create an American garden ...

9. Garden writing - Wikipedia

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   The book came rather too early for the flood of new American trees and shrubs that led to the development of the shrubbery a generation later, and subsequently the woodland garden, and Switzer's schemes for the more distant parts of sites from the house seem to have firmly remained woodland rather than garden. [15]