Landscape garden

The main axis of Painshill Park in Surrey stretches from the Gothic Temple (in the distance) to the Turkish Tent (behind the viewer).

The English Grounds of Wörlitz were one of the largest English parks in 18th-century Europe.

Sofiyivsky Park in Ukraine goes back to 1796.

The term landscape garden is often used to describe the English garden design style characteristic of the eighteenth century, that swept the Continent replacing the formal Renaissance garden and Garden à la française models. The work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown is particularly influential.

The term was not however used to any great extent during the eighteenth century. Its period of popularity was the nineteenth century at which time the classical style of serpentine curves and clumps had become unfashionable. In the twentieth century, the term 'landscape gardener' began to be used by garden contractors.

The term English garden or English park is used in many languages to refer to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in the United Kingdom from the mid 18th century to the early 19th century, and is particularly associated with Capability Brown. An example is the Englischer Garten or "English Garden", in Munich, Germany. The term is not used in this sense in English (except when discussing foreign language usage).

See also

• English garden
• Landscape gardens topics
• French landscape garden
• List of landscape parks of Poland
• Landscape design history

External links

• Photos of Pechersk Landscape Park in Kiev, Ukraine. (English)
• Photos of Sofiyivsky Park in Uman City, Ukraine. (English)