The London Gardener

Montagu House, Whitehall: Robert Marnock’s design for ‘one of the most tastefully-designed little gardens’

Author - Jan Woudstra
Originally published in Volume 29 (2025)

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Fig. 69 ‘A non-geometrical town garden with open lawn and good trees and shrubs’ Marnock’s garden plan for Montagu House was included in the first edition of William Robinson’s The English Flower Garden (1883), as a prototype for his ambitions for garden design in the pursuit of the natural style (Private Collection)