![]() In poetry and philosophy, a rediscovery of classical imagery and the importance of nature was championed by Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope. Planting at Painshill, April 2006, copyright Louise Wickham (The title was a play on the author’s name, meaning ‘Park-in-Sun’s Park on Earth’). Two books looked beyond the plants to the gardens that could be created with them: The Gardeners Labyrinth by Thomas Hill, published in 1577 and John Parkinson’s work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, published in 1629. ![]() The increased availability of books in the 16th century led to many published lists of plants and their uses, known as ‘herbals’, most notably those by William Turner and John Gerard. ![]() Recreated Elizabethan garden at Trerice, September 2006, copyright Louise Wickham Medieval gardens were celebrated in literature and art, which show how they were laid out and the features and plants they contained.īy the late 14th century, Jon Gardener published what was in effect the first practical gardening book, although it was in the form of a poem: The Feate of Gardeninge. ![]() ![]() Gardens were created in Roman Britain and through into the Middle Ages, but often little is known about them beyond their owner’s name. ![]()
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