Gardenesque

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The term 'gardenesque' was introduced by John Claudius Loudon to describe a style of planting design in accordance with his Principle of Recognition. He was worried that picturesque planting could be mistaken for natural growth and argued that for a planting design to be recognizable as a work of art only exotic plants should be used. Later in his career Loudon accepted several other ways of making planting recognizable as art (1) by removing surrounding plants so that a perfect form of the plant was grown (2) by 'high keeping' (intensive maintenance) in a garden (3) by planting in geometrial beds.