ABSTRACT
One of the most striking things about discussions of tree planting in the gardening literature of the nineteenth century is the virtual disappearance of the word 'grove'. John Claudius Loudon's proposal of the 'gardenesque' as a new style, formulated in the 1830s, discouraged close planting, whether of flowers or of trees; it shifted emphasis from the mass to the individual specimen, and in this it captured the attention of a generation of gardeners who were already giving specimen trees greater emphasis in planting. The idea that the principles of colour planning being experimented with in the flower garden might be applied to the wider landscape was not expressed openly until the 1860s, but between the 1820s and the 1850s various experiments in landscape colour were carried out. The first garden to be written up for its massing of trees and shrubs by colour was Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, whose grounds were planted in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
