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Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy, 1333-1348 VS Cecil Pinsent, Villa La Foce, Chianciano Terme, Italy, 1924-1939 , 

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On 8 April 1783 John Loudon, the Scottish architect, landscape gardener and journalist was born.

Loudon had a profound influence on the aspiring middle classes through his books on architecture and gardening. Co-author with his wife, Jane Webb, of The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion, and author of An Encylopaedia of Gardening, British Trees and Shrubs, Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, he also founded Gardener's Magazine.

His designs can be seen at Scone Palace and Castle Kennedy, near Stranraer. Loudon was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study, so next time you walk through an Arboretum, remember him and Scotland.

You can find more on John Loudon in a more lengthy biography here http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201913

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Garden designed by Beth Chatto

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‘If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.’

Gertrude Jekyll ..

‘To historians, this is one of the most famous gardens in England. It belonged to Gertrude Jekyll and she employed Edwin Lutyens to design the house. Construction began in 1895. The house is in excellent condition and the garden, though greatly changed is being restored. One of the problems is that for her “small garden” of 15 acres, Jekyll employed 14 gardeners.‘

Munstead Wood Garden