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Im looking to do a landscape/garden design and construction course at a college in England, does anyone know the best courses or colleges that do this sort of thing.
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Why not contact the royal horticultural society and see if they can give you some advice.
There seem to be so many to choose from and at different prices. I would like to have a qualification at the end that would be worthy of the work and allow me to earn money.
Look at rhs.org.uk Im looking for a course myself but on gardening not design.
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I am looking for information regarding the background and origins of the "tropical gardening" style for a garden design course that I am doing. There is a lot of information available regarding Zen Gardens, English Country Gardens, Cottage Gardens, etc but very little about the background and history of tropical gardens. Can anyone suggest any helpful resources that could assist me with finding answers? Thanks in advance!
The Tropical Garden by William Warren, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni (Photographer), opens with an essay tracing the historical interest in tropical plants. Royal and religious, private and public tropical gardens are discussed:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 50028198X/toptropicals-20
Daniel Headrick, “Botany, Chemistry, and Tropical Development,” Journal of World History notes that the growing demand of Western consumers and industries for tropical products... helped spur relations between the North Atlantic countries and the tropics in the century before 1914.
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8 &p=background+and+origins+of+the+%22 tropical+gardening%22&fr=slv8-sbc&am p;u=www.learner.org/channel/courses/worl dhistory/support/reading_19_3.pdf&w= background+origins+%22tropical+gardening %22&d=Upqxn0fiSA0p&icp=1&.in tl=us
Tropical Garden Design, by Made Wijayahas includes a history of tropical colonial gardens:
http://www.amazon.com/Tropical-Garden-De sign-Made-Wijaya/dp/9625938176
" Tropical gardens can contain a wide variety of plants, but some require lots of heat while others require lots of water. Tropical gardens also don't often survive freezing temperatures either, so many people in cooler climates choose to create tropical container gardens which can be taken inside when bitter cold winter temperatures come around.
Most tropical plants require a lot of sunlight though, so if you're planting them into a ground based garden or raised garden bed, be sure to choose the sunniest spot you can find in your yard. You'll want to plant tropical plants and flowers in areas which get a minimum of six hours direct sunlight each day. Some tropical garden plants such as bougainvillea, thrive on irregular watering patterns"
Esperanza and Spanish Broom are excellent plants to put into a tropical garden, which are both heat and drought tolerant. These plants produce bright showy yellow flowers that bloom continuously from spring through fall.
http://weekendgardening.com/tropical-gar dening/tropical-gardening.html
Tropical backyard:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juancarlosa rzola/2304749676/
Various tropical landscapes:
http://www.gardenphuket.com/landscape/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72793939@N0 0/2562828725/
http://i.rentalo.com/p/92275/8644230l.jp g
http://www.botanescapes.com/landscaping- portfolio/gallery-images.html (scroll through the landscapes)
http://www.tropicalfoliagegarden.com/con tents.htm
http://www.tropicallandscape.net/gallery .html
http://www.hmdesign.biz/DesignSamples.as px
Use plants that give you a lush tropical feel, like palms, ferns and elephant ears, but also use water features, such as a fountain, waterfall, pond or stream:
http://www.tampalandscapedesign.com/page 7.html
http://www.plant-care.com/1546-tropical- landscaping.html
Many plants grown as houseplants, such as cactus & Agave, thrive outside in a semi-arid tropical environment. "In regions where the heat of the growing season is followed by frost or freezing temperatures, tropical plants are often dug up and overwintered, used as houseplants, or simply repurchased for use the next growing season."
http://www.extension.org/pages/Tropical_ Plants_in_the_Landscape
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02 /3135729587/
Plants like Cannas give a tropical lookto the landscape:
http://www.garden.org/subchannels/landsc aping/ground?q=show&id=2039
Using Bromelias:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14077752@N0 3/1592977394/
Tips on types of plants to use & what type of hardscape (permanent features)... like bamboo...you'll need :
http://www.ehow.com/how_4663553_design-t ropical-landscape.html?ref=fuel&utm_ source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_ campaign=yssp_art
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danial_iema n/3044303237/
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gr_lawns_l andscaping/article/0,2029,DIY_13852_2388 771,00.html
Videos of Tropical Paradise Backyard Retreats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwbRjAy- gQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnQjRhMv 0g&feature=related
Good luck !!! Hope this is helpful.
I need some more information about aha gardens , I know these were gardens designed to make the garden look wider and ?bigger but I can''t find a specific photo or picture as an example , who can help me ??
I think you mean a ha-ha, originally called Ha! Ha!s because of the surprise element involved in falling over the wall you can't see into the ditch below, designed to keep the cattle and deer from the house front.
These were originally in use across Italy and France in the seventeenth century, but more for practical reasons than design features. Only in England did they become a status symbol, probably because we are a small country and to make your estate look bigger required a bit more ingenuity. The debate around them in the middle and later eighteenth century is very interesting. I suggest, if you want to see a good example, you visit Stowe (NT) in Buckinghamshire which you ought to visit anyway as it contains features from virtually all the garden designers of the 1800s, Batty Langley, Bridgeman, Kent and 'Capability' Brown. Chatsworth also has a ha-ha, and there is a very nice, small-ish, example at Blickling in Norfolk, I think. Most period gardens have some remnants of the ha-ha. Stowe is the largest, I think. Petworth is one of the most complete of Brown's designs, and Blenheim, of course, is an important site.
Read: Stephen Switzer, one of the first garden writers to make economies of scale possible - running a big estate was expensive.
Humphry Repton, writing at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries. He was influential, although very few of his designs remain: one of his debating points is, in fact, the ha-ha, which by 1790 was beginning to be more of a problem than a virtue - estates were smaller, money tighter, and there was a return to a desire for the more formal garden, terraces, ballustrades and flower-beds near the house, so a fence would do as well in Repton's mind. The other thing he pointed out was the peculiarity of a garden looking as though it was full of cows, when, if you have pretty plantings near your windows you plainly don't want a lot of cows there as well ...
Brown didn't write much about garden designs. He was a pragmatic and tireless professional who had an idea and wanted to carry it out - some thought to ridiculous levels - moving villages, and so forth, but it's most likely that you'll find good examples of the ha-ha in his designs.
John Claudius Loudon published all Repton's writings in one volume in 1840, available now in the 'Aesthetics and the Picturesque, 1795-1840' series, ed. Gavin Budge (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001). The other large series to look at is 'The English Landscape Garden' (29 volumes at last count), ed. John Dixon Hunt (New York/London: Garland, 1982). Also, have a read of John Dixon Hunt's 'The Figure in the Landscape', which discusses the relationship of painting to European gardens - one reason the ha- ha was liked, because it made your estate look more like the French and Italian paintings so popular in England at the end of the seventeenth century (status again - it meant you'd travelled if you knew what these things looked like).
A comprehensive and useful, but a little opinionated, study of garden design is by Charles Quest-Ritson; 'The English Garden: A Social History' (Penguin, 2003).
Hope this helps, but get out there - it's never the same in a picture!
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