Landscape Gardening
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Landscape gardening is an art form that is often used to compliment the architecture of buildings and to provide outdoor spaces for individual and public benefit and pleasure. Andrew Jackson Downing helped pave the way for landscape gardening in American society, when he established a number of nurseries and began designing landscape gardens along the Hudson River above New York City in the 1850s. As one historian notes, ôno American has built for himself a more permanent monument than Downing the landscape gardener,ö (Elliott, 1995, p. 14). This essay will discuss different forms of landscape gardening and those responsible for them.The concept of landscape gardening was a concept available only to the wealthy when A. J. Downing began designing gardens for the wealthy in upstate New York in the 1850s. While gardens were popular up to this time, Downing helped pave the way for a wide scale movement that was the result of an increasing prosperity among Americans. His embellishments in Westchester County, New York, were part o
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