The Claudians Chapter 13: Landscape Architecture

In 1831 Mr and Mrs Loudon couple set out to tour English gardens. They spent some time in Birmingham, where she had been brought up. She visited her friends and he designed a Botanical Garden for the Horticultural Society. When their tour resumed Jane said she said she was as interested in her husband’s ideas about the landscape architecture (of cities and landscapes ), as she was interested in gardens. So they made notes on this for John to publish in the Gardener’s Magazine he had founded in 1826. This led him on to talk about his Whig ideas for the reform of British society and its political system. When she asked how long it might be for the ideas to come about, he laughed that it might take 300 years.

The Loudons Honeymoon Tour - 

Pinner Tomb - 

Loudon's Circular Glasshouse design - 

Moor Park - 

Birmingham Botanical Garden -

J.C. Loudon and the term Landscape Architecture - 

Gilbert Laing Meason Lindertis -

J.C. Loudon's influence on Landscape Architecture - 

Labourer's cottages J.C. Loudon - 

Game laws J.C. Loudon - 

Roads and highway planning -

Railway planning J.C. Loudon - 

Canals amenity planning J.C. Loudon - 

Public parks, walks and promenades - 

Urban design J.C. Loudon - 

English village governance J.C. Loudon - 

Village churchyards J.C. Loudon - 

School gardens and gardening J.C. Loudon - 

Water closets J.C. Loudon - 

Wasteland cultivation J.C. Loudon - 

Farm planning J.C. Loudon - 

Dung heaps J.C. Loudon - 

Tree planting J.C. Loudon - 

Parliamentary reform Loudon - 

Chapter index pages Introduction, Chapter 1: Somers and Buchanans, Chapter 2: Loudons, Chapter 3: Indian Mission, Chapter 4: Picturesque Gardens, Chapter 5: Farming Landscapes, Chapter 6: Prussian Gardens, Chapter 7: Russian Gardens, Chapter 8: Buchanan’s Destiny, Chapter 9: Italian Gardens, Chapter 10: Gardenesque Gardens, Chapter 11: Utilitarian Landscapes, Chapter 12: Marriage, Chapter 13: Landscape Architecture, Chapter 14: Family Reunion, Chapter 15: Loudon’s Zenith, Chapter 16: Valedictory, Afterword.