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Why is the garden absent in English painting?

We have no more than a fitful tradition of garden painting - although there are some glorious exceptions

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

One of the default settings of garden journalists is the adjective ‘painterly’ — applied to careful colour harmonies within a border (or equally considered clashes) and long, swooping vistas. It evokes soft sfumato smudges of pink and green, much as I imagine the interior of the late Queen Mother’s wardrobe must have looked.

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