The Garden and Landscape Guide

There are links to information on garden design and landscape architecture (including: online books, biographies, a directory of designers, a glossary, a product finder, and eArticles and eBooks on the history, theory and design methods of these professions). See our About Page for more information or please contact us to comment.

New content

• A new book by Tom Turner is now available for pre-order: The Claudians is a fictionalised biography of John Claudius Loudon and his cousin Claudius Buchanan, a missionary. Loudon was a visionary in garden design, landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. He invented the technology of the Crystal Palace, the Gardenesque Style of Planting Design, and the greenbelt and greenway ideas.
• Corrections to the birth dates of John Claudius Loudon, Jane Webb Loudon and Claudius Buchanan.
• Garden History styles and music videos packed with images of designed gardens and landscapes in the British Isles: Prehistoric, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Arts and Crafts, Abstract Modern, Postmodern Post-Abstract 
• Urban design and Landscape Ecological Urbanism
• Historic and heritage garden wedding venues
• Companion pages with guides to the history of Asian garden design and European garden design and British garden design
• Overview page for Asian gardens
• Review and photographs of RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
• Online eBook of Gertrude Jekyll's Colour schemes for the flower garden (1921) 'the best and most famous books ever published on planting design'
• Why landscape architecture is one of the world's most important professions.