modern and post-modern gardens
A prominent garden designer of the modern and post-modern eras was Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), whose designs were intellectual and symbolic. In small private gardens the idea of the outside room developed while, in the late 20thC, an emerging awareness of heritage led to the faithful restoration of gardens from earlier eras.
This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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