In the early day of gardening in the British Isles , garden designing were base on geometric patterns , always emphasize geometrical regularity of form . During Elizabethan times topiary and patio with heraldist beasts as ornaments , and quiet lawns were the order of the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ; trees were always planted in a wrangle or regular pattern . Later , avenues became longer , ` walks ’ , square fish pool , and snarl or labyrinths were constructed and parterre of the most intricate design represented the height of garden knockout and decoration .
These parterre were in an elaborate way contrive , the outline traced in clipped hedgerow , often very small and usually of box , the interstice fill , either with plants or coloured Stone and other minerals , one colour to a quad , to form a pattern in the parterre garden as a whole . There were frequent magnetic declination on this theme , stature being added by crop Tree , often cut into formal shapes , but always the gardener ’s handiwork levy formal organisation upon nature .
Frequently cracking prospect were treated in this way , always executed on level ground and twin the plan of the house . Terraces and vantage points were usually constructed so that these magnanimous designs could be looked down upon and enjoyed as a whole . Examples still exist at Cliveden , in Buckinghamshire , and at Oxburgh Hall , Norfolk , where from the high gatehouse one can look down upon the formal garden .
Thus , up to the eighteenth one C , every garden was formal , regularly design and ornamented with topiary , statues , arbor and fountains . Pope and Addison had in their penning loudly criticized formality and when Lancelot ( ` Capability ) Brown some years later advocated the large sweeping aside of the intimately designed plot in favor of landscape painting effects , such neat parks as Longleat , Harewood House and Blenheim were created . Humphry Repton , solve in the later 18th and former nineteenth one C , follow in Brown ’s footsteps , although his schemes were not on as prominent a weighing machine and he made the changeover between star sign and garden more gradual by introducing terraces and balustraded walks . But the great expanse towards the natural , roomy style , where plants were used to emulate nature in woodland , water garden and stonework continued ; except for a sudden retrogression during Victorian years .
Then intricate and luxuriant bedding schemes became stylish . Carpet bedding was used for effect and draught - boarddesign returned to the flower garden . Since then , mainly through the work and writing of William Robinson and his follower , rude planting schemes have been very widely used , exploit flora color , form and texture in many ways . But formalness still had its adherents in such men as Sir Reginald Blomfield , Harold Peto and Sir Edwin Lutyens , all architect .
New examples of schematic gardens are those of several individual house designed by Lutyens , the gardens perfectly integrated into the blueprint by his partner Miss Gertrude Jekyll . Such places as Orchards , Godalming ( 1896 ) , The Deanery at Sonning , on the Thames ( 1899 ) and Tyringham , Buckinghamshire ( 1924 ) were designed by this remarkable partnership Around the turn of the 100 Major Lawrence Johnston , architect and artist , start to make his notable garden at Hidcote Bartrim , Gloucestershire , one of the finest example of a schematic garden , although it is informally found . It consists , in fact , of a number of garden , split up by fine hedgerow , each one a perfect garden on its own .
object lesson of formal garden heart-to-heart to the public in England are Belton House , Lincolnshire ; Castle Ashby , Northamptonshire ; Cliveden , Buckinghamshire ; Compton Wynyates , Warwickshire ; Easton Neston , Northamptonshire ; Hampton Court , Middlesex ; Haseley Court , Oxfordshire ; Hidcote , Gloucestershire ; Holkham Hall , Norfolk ; Lanhydrock ( rose garden ) , Cornwall ; Oxburgh Hall , Norfolk ; Packwood House , Warwickshire ; Shrubland Park , Suffolk ; Isle of Wight - wick Manor , Staffordshire .
