English landscape garden

The English landscape garden,or simply the English garden 

is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.^[1

^] The English garden presented an idealized view of nature.^2]

 The English garden usually included a lake, f gently rolling lawns (prati) set against groves(boschetti) of trees, and recreations of classical temples, 

Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to read, write and work in the garden. They created a brilliant patchwork of garden rooms, linked by brick paths (sentieri), secluded behind flint walls and yew hedges (siepi). A book reveals how important a role the garden played in their lives, as a source of both pleasure and inspiration. Virginia wrote most of her major novels at Monk's House,