"Where did I say Repton hated everything Brown did? I never mentioned anything about Repton’s opinion of Brown. Not knowing who-said-what may explain your confusion with this subject."
Tom:
My mistake, you didn't say that at all. What you did say is this;
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The garden designers of the late 19th and early 20th C hated Capability Brown.”
That very well may’ve been but my point here is so what? What does that have to do with landscape architecture’s basic impact on golf course architecture?
What we are trying to do here, or at least I thought we were trying to do, is have a discussion about golf course architecture and what it was that had some significant effects and influences on golf course architecture from other disciplines or art forms such as landscape gardening, landscape design and landscape architecture.
I mean in some way it is fascinating to listen to you drone on and drop all kinds of names and places about the A/C Movement, about the “wild gardens” of Jekyll and others, and so forth---about how the proponents of that style hated Capability Brown because his style was still too formal, too unnatural, but the point is what was it that had a real effect on golf course architecture?
Again, your contention in your five part essay on the Arts and Crafts movement is that it had a huge influence on GCA and its Golden Age architecture, even if through practitioners of other disciplines such as late 19th century landscape gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyl who may’ve supported the A/C Movement.
In my opinion, that is just basically historically and factually unsupportable. At least it certainly is to the extent that you’re proposing it, which is to actually suppose it had such a massive influence on GCA that the Golden Age of architecture should more appropriately be termed “Arts and Crafts Golf” (A/C golf architecture)---eg the title, and the point of your five part essay.
You said just above;
“Highly formal gardens? Are you saying the A&C garden is highly formal? Perhaps you are confusing the formal gardens of the mid-Victorian period (which featured geometric carpet bedding) with the gardens of the A&C era (which featured garden rooms, hardy native species, informal herbaceous borders, woodland gardens, pergolas, water features, occasional topiary, etc.).”
Tom, why don’t you try reading a bit more diligently sometimes and you may not need to ask questions like that all the time? Why do you think I’m saying the A/C gardens were highly formal? Did the A/C garden style PRECEDE Capability Brown? Of course not, he preceded the A/C Movement and the English "wild garden" LA style of a Jekyll et al by at least 50-100 years.
Furthermore, was Gertrude Jekyll's style of landcape gardening actually ever called "The Arts and Crafts style of landscape gardening" by anyone at that time? Or is that just some term you came up with to more effectively connected these largely unconnected art forms, disciplines and movements simply to continue making your point of how influential the William Morris and the AC Movement was on golf course architecture?
I said that some purists and proponents of the classical and highly formal English Garden style that preceded Brown blamed him for reordering many of those gardens into his more natural and pastoral landscaped “park’ style.