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The term landscape garden is often used to describe the English Garden design style characteristic of the eighteenth century, particularly with the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown . The term was not however used to any great extent during the eighteenth century. Its period of popularity was the nineteenth century at which time the classical style of serpentine curves and clumps had become unfashionable. In the twentieth century, the term 'landscape gardener' began to be used by garden contractors.


ENGLISH GARDEN

See Also: English garden


The term '' English Garden '' or ''English park'' is used in many languages to refer to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in the United Kingdom from the mid 18th century to the early 19th century, and is particularly associated with Capability Brown . An example is the Englischer Garten or "English Garden", in Munich , Germany . The term is not used in this sense in English (except when discussing foreign language usage).


JAPANESE AND CHINESE GARDENS

See Also: Japanese garden
Chinese garden


Separate traditions of landscape gardens evolved in Japan and China . Elements from Japanese Garden s are often incorporated into the European landscape garden.


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