I figured we could use some distraction while waiting - I know I could. So, I give you an autumnal beauties of Munich pic spam - trees and landmarks alike:
Oh, beautiful. There is nothing like trees in autumn to provide distraction in worrying times, which these certainly are.
Why is it called the "English Garden"? Is it because it uses an English style of landscaping i.e. looks natural but with lots of carefully planted trees to give long views of seemingly open country a la Capability Brown?
When londonkds asked me the same thing, he added that it didn't look English enough in that sense to him. But you have to consider that at the time it was named thus, Bavarian landscaping had been Versailles-style oriented ever since the Sun King, and so to order it "in the English style" instead was very new. They tried to make it upon and seemingly natural! But it's actually more like Hyde Park than anything else I've seen in England.
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Why is it called the "English Garden"? Is it because it uses an English style of landscaping i.e. looks natural but with lots of carefully planted trees to give long views of seemingly open country a la Capability Brown?
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