THE EDWARDIAN AND VICTORIAN GARDEN.
Course No. 011. Tutor - David Whitehead M.A, F.S.A.

This is a weekend course in which Saturday will be used to trace the history of British gardens from the picturesque era at the beginning of the 19th. Century to the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th Century. The story is one of dialogue and tension, between the formal and informal, between Art and Nature, and the foreign style of gardening and the English landscape style. It is also the story of continuous revivalism; classical, Renaissance, French, Elizabethan etc. and an era of great names; Repton, London, Nesfield, Lutens and Jeykll - to name but a few.
During this period the number of plants available for the garden rose from 10,000 in 1800 to nearly 100,000 in 1900. It is also the era of the rock garden and the rootery; terraces and topiary; conservatories and container gardening. Above all else it was the age of the head gardener who made it all happen and became a powerful force in the land.