Gardenvisit.com

The website has grown in size and scope while continuing to reflect Tom's interests: travel, garden design, landscape architecture and landscape planning. The full online text of several books by Tom Turner is included on the website: English Garden Design (ACC, 1986), Landscape Planning (Hutchinson,1987; Spon, 1998), City as Landscape (1997) (see... History Theory eBooks). The Gardenvisit.com website was re-launched in 2007 with over 10,000 pages of text and 10,000 images - and the aims unchanged. We link information about places to information about garden and landscape design: history, philosophy, styles, construction, materials, design methods, planting and designers. Information enriches a visitor's experience and is of value when designing gardens and landscapes. Since the history and theory of garden design is inextricably bound with that of public landscapes, the scope of the website includes the broader scales of landscape architecture and planning. Both garden design and landscape architecture are concerned with the composition of landform, buildings, water, vegetation and paving to achieve technical, social and aesthetic objectives (see Compositional Elements)Read More