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unusual facts about Landscape gardener



Highams Park Lake, Waltham Forest, London

Highams Park Lake was formed in the early 19th century by the famous Landscape gardener Sir Humphry Repton, who diverted the Ching and flooded the excavation he and his team had made.


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Ashton Lane

Other bars and restaurants were opened: the Cul-de-Sac creperie in the former Barr and Stroud factory and Bar Brel in the old coachhouse that had been used latterly as a landscape gardener's yard but was, in 1910, the chauffeur’s house and garage for Dr Marion Gilchrist’s 'prim dark green Wolseley landaulette'.

Camellia japonica 'The Czar'

The plant was thought to have originated from a seedling selected by landscape gardener Neil Breslin of Camberwell, Victoria.

Charles Platt

Charles A. Platt (1861–1933), American landscape gardener and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell

As a landscape gardener, Sckell was also responsible for beginning the castle gardens at Biebrich and Oppenweiler, and possibly those at Dirmstein as well.

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (13 September 1750, Weilburg – 24 February 1823) was a German landscape gardener from Weilburg an der Lahn.

Joshua Major

Joshua Major (1786–1866) was an English landscape gardener and designer, born on 28 August 1786 in Owston, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire.

Kirkharle

Kirkharle's most famous son is Capability Brown the notable landscape gardener whose father was employed by the Loraines at Kirkharle Hall.

Lanning Roper

He was commissioned as Prince Charles' landscape gardener in 1981 to do the grounds at Highgrove House in the Cotswolds.

Peter Donat

Donat was born Pierre Collingwood Donat in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Marie (née Bardet) and Philip Ernst Donat, a landscape gardener.

Reginald McKenna

McKenna was married in 1908 to Pamela Jekyll (who died November 1943), younger daughter of Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG (brother of landscape gardener Gertrude Jekyll) and his wife Lady Agnes Jekyll, née Graham.

Robert Marnock

He left this post in 1863 but continued to practise in his profession as a landscape gardener until 1879, during this time he returned to Sheffield for two commissions, Thornbury in 1865 and Weston Park in 1873.

Sarah Gildersleeve Fife

:*An early volume by J.C. Loudon on the noted British landscape gardener and architect, Humphry Repton.

Volkspark Friedrichshain

The park was originally conceived by the landscape gardener Peter Joseph Lenné, and in 1840 the Berlin city council decided to construct it on the occasion of the centennial of Frederick the Great's ascension to the Prussian throne.