English garden design began with the revolt against the constraint of formal landscape design and classic landscape design. Where formal garden find beauty in linearity, English garden use undulating line. Where formal garden seek right angle, English gardens use few, if any, angle.
Impressionist painter were key influencer in the continuing development of the English garden design. Claude Monet claime that paints and garden were his only two interest in life. When he first move to Giverny, where he would build his famou water garden, his first concern was to arrange the garden in a rampant, naturalistic explosion of color.
The residential English garden design has since become hugely popular in the Unit State. Houston semi-tropical climate is well suit for vine covere pergolas, sunny rose garden, dazzling azalea bed and burst of seasonal color all plant material that fit well within the English garden concept of abundance.
