The Victorian Garden

The Victorian Garden

While gardening has been going on since Eden, it was during the Victorian era that it became widely popular due in part to new technologies, more diverse plant stock, the rise of the middle class and with it the invention of suburban living.

Victorian Garden became popular with the increase in the amount of leisure time owners could devote to it. A front and rear lawn were considered imperative in formal landscape gardens.

Woodland gardens and cottage gardens were more informal, and lawns were not such a requisite. Most properties at the turn of the century were fenced.

Cast iron was by far the most popular material because it was the most ornamental.