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The name “landscape architecture” was invented by Gilbert Laing Meason.Gilbert Laing Meason of Lindertis FRSE FSA was a Scottish merchant and agricultural improver, best remembered as the originator of the term landscape architecture.


The first person to write of “making” a landscape was Joseph Addison in a series of essays entitled “On the Pleasures of the Imagination”
The history of landscape architecture, formally landscape gardening, is largely that of master planning and garden design for manor houses, palaces and royal properties, religious complexes, and centers of government.
The name “landscape architecture” was invented by Gilbert Laing Meason.Gilbert Laing Meason of Lindertis FRSE FSA was a Scottish merchant and agricultural improver, best remembered as the originator of the term landscape architecture.
Throughout almost twenty years of work on the Emerald Necklace (Boston), Frederick Law Olmsted created special retreats — places for both active and passive recreation; green and open spaces offering relief and refreshment from the pressures and tensions of everyday life.
William Lyman Phillips the man largely responsible for popularizing Florida’s exotic landscape. William Lyman Phillips played a seminal role in the landscaping of Florida and the history of landscape architecture designing the world-famous Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami (begun in 1938) as well as hundreds of other sites. William Lyman Phillips has been called the Pioneer of Tropical Landscape Architecture.
The world-famous Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami designed by William Lyman Phillips.
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Fan palm has a trunk that almost always grows underground. Thin stems grow from the underground trunk and have a wide, singular frond on top. It grows to be 5-10 feet tall and puts out showy white flowers during spring and early summer. It produces 2 clusters of flowers at a time.