After a brief break from the landscape styles series to share Flowers surviving in dry, dry conditions for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, it's time to get back to the landscape styles discussion.
To illustrate aspects of Paradise/Formal landscape styles and the more pastoral English landscape style – subjects of my two previous posts - let's visit Boston Public Garden as it appeared in May 2010. These 24 acres – a salt marsh until 1837 – along with Boston Common (created in 1634), form the northern end of Boston's Emerald Necklace, a string of greenways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
The geometric, highly organized, and formal-looking Paradise garden style (see previous post) dominated garden design for centuries. Then the Brits revolted.
One of my recently completed landscape design lessons required researching three major landscape styles and submitting a report on my findings and how each style - Paradise Gardens, the English Landscape Movement, and Japanese Gardens - impacts modern garden design.
I plant nasturtiums for their lovely edible leaves. No, I plant them for their beautiful blossoms. No, wait, I plant them to attract aphids … because they are easy to grow … because they offer a choice of plain or variegated leaves and multiple flower colors – not my favorite purples and blues – but many other crisp warm colors. No, I plant them because they grow equally well in garden soil and containers.
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