About Gardenvisit.com

Gardenvisit.com was launched in the Dotcom Era (1998) by Tom Turner (MA, Dip LA, MLI), a landscape architect and garden historian based in London, UK. 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)

The Garden Finder provides details of places to visit throughout the world, some in public ownership and others in private ownership (including hotels, spas, resorts and other commercial organizations) and with the information hyperlinked to histories of garden design and landscape architecture, including: online books, biographies, a directory of garden and landscape designers, a glossary of garden and landscape terms, a design product finder and a range of articles on the history, theory and design methods of the garden design and landscape architecture professions. In March 2008, we introduced a system which allows garden managers to update details of opening times etc and to supply additional information. In time, this will provide three opinions of each garden: from the website editors, from the Head Gardener and reviews from garden visitors.

The website is managed by an Editor, a Technical Manager and a Content Manager with additional volunteer help. We give warm thanks to our contributors.

Please address enquiries to our administrative assistant: Daisie Maud - there is a Contact Us link at the foot of every webpage.

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