#Landscape Gardener

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On 8th April 1783 John Loudon, the Scottish architect, landscape gardener and journalist was born.

Loudon was born in Cambuslang, to a respectable farmer. Therefore, as he was growing up, he developed a practical knowledge of plants and farming. As a young man, Loudon studied biology, botany and agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. When working on the layout of farms in South Scotland, he described himself as a landscape planner.

Loudon developed a limp as a young man, and later became crippled with arthritis. Crippled by rheumatism and arthritis, he had to endure an amputation at his right shoulder after a botched operation to correct a broken arm. He learnt to write and draw with his left arm and hired a draughtsman to prepare his plans. At the same time he cured himself of an opium habit that had been keeping the pain at bay.

Around 1803, Loudon published an article entitled Observations on Laying out the Public Spaces in London, he called them Breathing Places and Country Zones.

This led to a series of commissions for landscape projects in which he sought to introduce 'more of the picturesque' into the English landscape. The results were illustrated in his 1806 Treatise on Country Residences.

This experience gave him an admiration for the 'old' 'formal' 'geometric' gardens which had been out of favour in England for a century. He praised them in his Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822) and later advocated a style of planting design which he named Gardenesque. The aim was to place exotic species in natural compositions. The influence of this idea lives on. Loudon was an advocate of public parks and published important works on glass houses, architecture, horticulture and agriculture.

He wrote a book in 1840 book called The landscape gardening and landscape architecture e of the late Humphry Repton, esq, not the first to use the terms for gardening, he was the one that used them extensively from then onwards.

John Loudon also designed large greenhouses for his parks, the third pic shows one he was commissioned for the Royal Horticultural Society in 1818.

Loudon established himself as a city planner, decades before Frederick Law Olmsted and others began to work. His vision for the possibility of long term planning for London's green spaces was illustrated within his work, Hints for Breathing Places for Metropolis published in 1829. He envisioned city growth being carefully shaped and circulation influenced by the inclusion of green belts, ideas not adopted until well into the 20th century.

His work on cemeteries also was significant. Churchyards were becoming full, especially in urban areas, and new cemeteries were being opened by private enterprises. Loudon designed only three cemeteries (Bath Abbey Cemetery, Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge, and Southampton Old Cemetery where the design was rejected)but his writing was a major influence on others.

An unusual creation by Loudon is the memorial to his parents, as seen in pic four, which stands in the grounds of St John the Baptist, Pinner's parish church. It is in the form of a stone wedge, with a fake stone sarcophagus within. It has been Grade II listed since 1983.

John Loudon passed away on 14th December 1843 aged 60 in London.

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On 8th April 1783 John Claudius Loudon, the Scottish architect, landscape gardener and journalist was born.

Loudon had a profound influence on the aspiring middle classes through his books on architecture and gardening. Co-author with his wife, Jane Webb, of The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion, and author of An Encylopaedia of Gardening, British Trees and Shrubs, Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, he also founded Gardener’s Magazine.

His designs can be seen at Scone Palace and Castle Kennedy, near Stranraer. Loudon was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study, so next time you walk through an Arboretum, remember him and Scotland.

The drawings in the pics are examples of hiswork published in Gardeners magazine in 1839.

You can find more on John Loudon in a more lengthy biography here http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201913

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