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A Short Landscape Glossary
Character defining feature - A prominent or distinctive aspect, quality, or characteristic of a cultural landscape that contributes significantly to its physical character. Land use patterns, vegetation; furnishings, decorative details and materials may be such features.
Feature - The smallest element(s) of a landscape that contributes to the significance and that can be the subject of a treatment intervention. Examples include a woodlot, hedge, lawn, specimen plant, allee, house, meadow or open field, fence, wall, earthwork, pond or pool, bollard, orchard, or agricultural terrace.
Historic character - The sum of all-visual aspects, features, materials, and spaces associated with a cultural landscape's history, i.e. the original configuration together with losses and later changes. These qualities are often referred to as character defining as well.
Historic designed landscape - A landscape that was consciously designed or laid out by a landscape architect, master gardener, architect, engineer, or horticulturist according to design principles, or an amateur gardener working in a recognized style or tradition. The landscape may be associated with a significant person, trend, or event in landscape architecture; or illustrate an important development in the theory and practice of landscape architecture. Aesthetic values play a significant role in designed landscapes. Examples include parks, campuses, and estates.
Integrity - The authenticity of a property's historic identity, evinced by the survival of physical characteristics that existed during the property's historic period. The seven qualities of integrity as defined by the National Register Program are location, setting, feeling, association, design, workmanship, and materials.
Treatment - Work carried out to achieve a particular historic preservation goal.
Resources
Local archives containing horticultural and agricultural resources
Historic Garden Research
Plant Sources
Books
American Gardens, and Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants 1640-1940; by Denise Wiles Adams
For Every House a Garden: A Guide for Reproducing Period; by Rudy J. Favretti and Joy P. Favretti
Gardening in America, 1830-1910; by Partricia M. Tice
Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings; by Rudy J. Favretti and Joy P. Favretti
Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California; by Pamela Burton, Marie Botnick, Kathryn Smith
Southern California Gardens; by Victoria Padilla
The Garden Book of California; by Belle Sumner Angier, a 1906 new reprint
The New Traditional Garden: A Practical Guide to Creating and Restoring Authentic American Gardens for Homes of All Ages; by Michael Weishan |
MORE FROM THIS ISSUE
From the Editor
Most Endangered
A Brief History of Rancho Guejito
Another Part of the Story
The Threat
The Beauty of our State Parks in Peril
The Cultural Landscape Connection to Historic Preservation
What is a Cultural Landscape?
The Historic Home Landscape and Gardens
A Short Landscape Glossary
Importance of the Garden in Home Planning
When was Modern New?
Every Bungalow Represents our History
History Repeating
The Sherman-Glbert House
150th Anniversary of the Jackass Mail
Donations
Strength in Numbers
Lost San Diego
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