GARDENS in time
The 1930s was a fluid, more experimental period of garden design when garden owners, influenced by garden-makers of previous eras, found their own signature styles. The ‘greats’ of 1930s gardens, perhaps the most famous being Vita Sackville-West, were self-taught, often gardening and planning gardens for their own interests and use. Gardens became more personal: expressions of the individual’s tastes and reflecting their own, changing ideas.
The hallmarks of a 1930s garden
• Informality created from using a mix of styles• Loose planting• Diversity of plants, rarely native• Border soil never visible in flowering season• Spaces filled with annual flowers
