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‘I have built up a little garden’: the vernacular garden, national identity and a sense of place

‘I have built up a little garden’: the vernacular garden, national identity and a sense of place Abstract ‘Don't imagine for a moment’, wrote Edna Walling in the late 1920s, ‘that you cannot make little pictures on that suburban block’.1 The pictures that the well-known landscape designer made for her wealthy clients were generally far from little, and for most of her life those she created and inspired built upon the ideas of Gertrude Jekyll and were distinctly English in their flavour. Walling's incitement to gardeners, however, alerts us to the importance of the vernacular garden as an expression of creativity and as a reflection of the individual and cultural ‘pictures’ that gardeners carried with them as they sought to transtform their small blocks of land into spaces known, familiar and inviting. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

‘I have built up a little garden’: the vernacular garden, national identity and a sense of place

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Taylor & Francis
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1943-2186
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1460-1176
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10.1080/14601176.2001.10435241
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Abstract ‘Don't imagine for a moment’, wrote Edna Walling in the late 1920s, ‘that you cannot make little pictures on that suburban block’.1 The pictures that the well-known landscape designer made for her wealthy clients were generally far from little, and for most of her life those she created and inspired built upon the ideas of Gertrude Jekyll and were distinctly English in their flavour. Walling's incitement to gardeners, however, alerts us to the importance of the vernacular garden as an expression of creativity and as a reflection of the individual and cultural ‘pictures’ that gardeners carried with them as they sought to transtform their small blocks of land into spaces known, familiar and inviting.

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jun 1, 2001

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