In the 17th century, English gardens
were a mix of French and Dutch styles
adapted to different environmental circumstances.
In the 18th century, these
foreign, formal styles were overthrown in
favor of a more English, “natural” style
Landscape gardens, as they came to
be called, were equally as contrived as
formal gardens, but somehow people
interpreted irregular geometries as being
more representative of nature than
straight lines, a prejudice that exists in
the Western tradition to this day.