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Woodland garden, the Glossary

A woodland garden is a garden or section of a garden that includes large trees and is laid out so as to appear as more or less natural woodland, though it is often actually an artificial creation.^[1]

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Agroforestry

Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture.

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Andrea Wulf

Andrea Wulf (born 1967) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

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Arboretum

An arboretum (arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Bedding (horticulture)

Many types of flowering plants are available to plant in flower gardens or flower beds.

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Belmont Mansion (Philadelphia)

Belmont Mansion is a historic mansion located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.

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Bosquet

In the French formal garden, a bosquet (French, from Italian bosco, "grove, wood") is a formal plantation of trees in a wide variety of forms, some open at the bottom and others not. Woodland garden and bosquet are types of garden.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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British America

British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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Castle Howard

Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Henderskelfe, located north of York. Woodland garden and Castle Howard are woodland gardens.

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Charles Quest-Ritson

Charles Quest-Ritson (born 1947) is an English horticulturalist and garden writer.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Cragside

Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. Woodland garden and Cragside are woodland gardens.

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David Jacques

David Lawson Jacques PhD is a British garden historian.

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Ernest Henry Wilson

Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.

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Fountains Abbey

Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England.

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French formal garden

The French formal garden, also called the garden in the French manner, is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.

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Gardens of Versailles

The Gardens of Versailles (Jardins du château de Versailles) occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles.

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Geoffrey Jellicoe

Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, landscape and garden historian, lecturer and author.

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George Forrest (botanist)

George Forrest (13 March 1873 – 5 January 1932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first western explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country.

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George London (landscape architect)

George London (c. 1640–1714) was an English nurseryman and garden designer.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

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Gravetye Manor

Gravetye Manor is a manor house located near East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.

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Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough

Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (15 July 1699 — 26 March 1756), was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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History of gardening

The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Woodland garden and history of gardening are garden design history.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Japanese garden

are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape.

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Japonisme

Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858.

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Jargon

Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity.

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Jenny Uglow

Jennifer Sheila Uglow ((accessed 5 February 2008). (accessed 19 August 2022). born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher.

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John Bartram

John Bartram (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career.

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John Dixon Hunt

John Dixon Hunt (born 18 January 1936 in Gloucester) is an English landscape historian whose academic career began with teaching English literature.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Josiah Conder (architect)

Josiah Conder (28 September 1852 – 21 June 1920) was a British architect who was hired by the Meiji Japanese government as a professor of architecture for the Imperial College of Engineering and became architect of Japan's Public Works.

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Kelly & Walsh

Kelly & Walsh was a notable Shanghai-based publisher of English language books, founded in 1876, which currently exists as a small chain of shops in Hong Kong specializing in art books.

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Loddiges family

The Loddiges family (not uncommonly mis-spelt Loddige) managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens.

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Mavis Batey

Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was a British code-breaker during World War II.

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Monticello

Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 14.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Painshill

Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park.

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Pelargonium

Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants that includes about 280 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly called geraniums, pelargoniums, or storksbills.

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Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philip Miller

Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent.

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Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, (1 December 16906 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

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Plant nursery

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae).

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Rhododendron ponticum

Rhododendron ponticum, called common rhododendron or pontic rhododendron, is a species of flowering plant in the Rhododendron genus of the heath family Ericaceae.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Savill Garden

The Savill Garden is an enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in England, created by Sir Eric Savill in the 1930s.

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Serpentine shape

A serpentine shape is any of certain curved shapes of an object or design, which are suggestive of the shape of a snake (the adjective "serpentine" is derived from the word serpent).

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Sheffield Park and Garden

Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. Woodland garden and Sheffield Park and Garden are woodland gardens.

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Sheringham Park

Sheringham Park is a landscape park and gardens near the town of Sheringham, Norfolk, England. Woodland garden and Sheringham Park are woodland gardens.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.

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Shrubbery

A shrubbery, shrub border or shrub garden is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering species, are thickly planted.

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Soil pH

Soil pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity (alkalinity) of a soil.

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Stephen Switzer

Stephen Switzer (1682–1745) was an English gardener, garden designer and writer on garden subjects, often credited as an early exponent of the English landscape garden.

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Studley Royal Park

Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey is a designated World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire, England. Woodland garden and Studley Royal Park are woodland gardens.

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Sublime (literary)

The sublime in literature refers to the use of language and description that excites the senses of the reader to a degree that exceeds the ordinary limits of that individual's capacities.

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Susan Jellicoe

Lady Susan Jellicoe (Pares; 30 June 1907 – 1 August 1986) was an English plantswoman, photographer, writer, and editor who worked in collaboration with her husband, the landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole.

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Thomas Fairchild (gardener)

Thomas Fairchild (? 166710 October 1729) was an English gardener, "the leading nurseryman of his day", working in London.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Valley Gardens

The Valley Gardens are of woodland garden, part of the Crown Estate located near Englefield Green in the English county of Surrey, on the eastern edge of Windsor Great Park. Woodland garden and Valley Gardens are woodland gardens.

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Wilderness (garden history)

In the Western history of gardening, from the 16th to early 19th centuries, a wilderness was a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden. Woodland garden and wilderness (garden history) are types of garden.

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William Robinson (gardener)

William Robinson: (15 July 1838 – 12 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement, and were important in promoting the woodland garden.

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William Shenstone

William Shenstone (18 November 171411 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

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Windsor Great Park

Windsor Great Park is a Royal Park of, including a deer park, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England.

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Woodland

A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_garden

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Garden design

Garden design history

Gardening in England

Gardening in the United States

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