Comments on: Is there too much of Kew Gardens at Wakehurst Place? https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/is-there-too-much-of-kew-gardens-at-wakehurst-place/ Gardenvisit.com Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/is-there-too-much-of-kew-gardens-at-wakehurst-place/#comment-2189 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:58:42 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=4617#comment-2189 Geoffrey Jellicoe had some fanciful ideas about gender and design:

“In landscape he will discover that in general the love of intricacies, enclosed places and flowers is a feminine instinct traceable back through the Picturesque and the mediaeval ladies’ garden to the original forests; and the love of open spaces and grandeur is the male instinct traceable back through Capability Brown to the hunting savannahs.”

Does this suggestion of Jellicoe’s point to the genius of English Garden Design being is its balance of the masculine and the feminine?

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