Zprávy památkové péče 2019, 79(1):68-74 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2019.1.09
Garden edgings - an interesting detail of 19th century garden arrangements
- 1 NPÚ, ÚOP v Kroměříži
Arranging edgings around flower beds using inorganic materials, or using actual plants for edgings, has been a common element in gardening throughout the entire period of its development. Nonetheless, garden edgings are merely a small detail in the development of garden art and may be considered a symbol of one specific historical stage. Edgings are traditionally and primarily associated with the work of the prominent 19th-century Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, but the use of edgings has a longer tradition. The impulse for a deeper study of the phenomenon of garden edgings in the Czech Republic was the discovery of a larger number of ceramic edging fragments in the former castle gardens in Lomnice near Tišnov (South Moravian Region) in 2013. Research focused on the issue of edgings themselves as well as on specific types of flower beds and what types of edgings were used for them, and especially the types of gardening styles where such flower beds were cultivated. The research resulted in the discovery of edgings in nine locations in the Czech Republic, showing that their use was quite common in the Czech Republic in the second half of the 19th century. In particular, these are the castle gardens in Hluboká nad Vltavou, Lomnice, Lednice, Lysice, Milotice, the Kroměříž Flower and Castle Gardens, the grounds of the Vranov nad Dyjí Castle, and Landfras Villa in Jindřichův Hradec. Only in the garden of the Landfras Villa are these edgings in continuous use today. Through donations and loans, a collection of 31 different sets of edgings from the Czech Republic and 7 items from abroad (Slovakia, Germany, Great Britain) has resulted, creating an exhibition which is currently presented to the public in the restored orangery in the former castle gardens in Lomnice near Tišnov. This set can be compared to a set of 20 different clay edgings found during archaeological research and restoration in the Klein-Glienicke site in Potsdam, Germany, or to the exhibition located at Branitz Castle, where a complete collection of edgings made for Prince Pücler is presented.
Keywords: garden edgings, Lomnice u Tišnova, pleasure ground, garden culture
Published: March 1, 2019 Show citation
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