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Types of Garden

The document outlines various styles of gardens, including English, French, Persian, Italian, Chinese, and Mughal gardens, highlighting their historical significance and key features. Each garden style reflects cultural values, with elements such as symmetry, water features, and specific plant selections that symbolize different concepts. Notable figures and principles in garden design are also mentioned, emphasizing the artistic and practical aspects of gardening throughout history.

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Types of Garden

The document outlines various styles of gardens, including English, French, Persian, Italian, Chinese, and Mughal gardens, highlighting their historical significance and key features. Each garden style reflects cultural values, with elements such as symmetry, water features, and specific plant selections that symbolize different concepts. Notable figures and principles in garden design are also mentioned, emphasizing the artistic and practical aspects of gardening throughout history.

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English garden

• These are the most beautiful among European garden


• The main idea : The garden should merge with country side
without any barrier.
• In 14th cen. The garden are used for utility
• In 16th cen. Flower beds , topiary , terrace garden were
introduced
• In 18th cen . The idea of garden with nature
• Capability Brown, Henry Repton, William Kent
• Features:
• Lawn
• Herbaceous border with annuals and perennials
• Shrubberies and rockeries
• Formal planting tree, clipped hedges, Rivulets, water falls
lawn
• Annuals or perennials
• Flower beds
• shrubbery
• Rock gardens
• Curved paths
• Rivulets
• Streams
• Clipped hedges
• Artificial waterfalls
• Lancelot capability brown
• Royal Botanical Garden, Kew England
Cottage Garden
FRENCH GARDENS:
• These gardens have similarities with Italian gardens.
• The present style i.e French style is due to the efforts of
“Lenotre”.
• He introduced many revolutions in the garden.He made
perfections to refind the French style.
• His main creations are “Garden at Versailles” which have
avenues which are memorable for their tremendous length &
width.its first master piece was the garden at Vaux-Le-
Vicomte for which he had removed 3 villages to create his
vista.
Moral of french garden style of Lenotre was to teach the
lesson “how to think big”
IMPORTANT FEATURES ARE:

• The gardens have an effect of spaciousness & simplicity


appears closely related to nature.
• Implimentation of scale on garden design.
• The gardens were with tremendous length and width.
A Formal French Flower
Bed
PERSIAN GARDENS:
• It is one of the oldest style of gardening.
• Persian styles are based on their respective idea of
heaven.
• This style is strictly formal & symmetrical.
• Two types of garden
• Royal hunting garden
• Paradise garden
FEATURES OF PERSIAN GARDEN
• Crafted materials such as masonry, carved & pierced marble
stones & highly polished stones are used in these gardens.
• The gardens are laid out by cutting terraces on hill slopes.
• The main feature of Persian gardens are flowing
canals&Nahars of water.
• In concept of Persian gardens paradise is a place “where
cooling water flows.”
• Fruit trees represent “symbol of life”,while cyprus represent
symbol of “death and eternity”.
Masonary
• Carved and pierced marble stones
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• Flowing water canals


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• Flowing water canals


• Terrace gardens
• Cypress tree
ITALIAN GARDENS
• These gardens came at the time of “reniaissance”.
• These gardens have similarities with Persian gardens.
• Here there is heavy use of massnary features.
• Italian gardens were formal, romantic gardens which
were dominated by architectural features, flower beds
& hedges which form an integral part of architecture.
• It is just an extension of Lavish palaces as a
glamarous outdoor hall for entertainment.
• The greatest benefit of Italian garden style brought to
gardening is that it thought the entire Europe
that-”Gardening could be the most respectable form
of art which demands thorough & carefull study of
gardens.”

 IMPORTANT FEATURES ARE:


• Fountains, sculptures, water canals, hedges, edges, topiary,
arbour, trellis, architecturally beautiful buildings,
• Stairs of marble,decorative urns.
• Most commonly used plants are:Cyprus, fruit trees & roses
Chinese Garden
• Absence of symmetry
• China is also considered as one of the first place
where plants were cultivated.
• They regarded garden as an art and form
• Features:
• Garden designed in related to religion
• Circle: Paradise
• Rich with native plants
• They follow constant flow between positive and
negative
• Rocks used to symbolize mountain best rocks eroded
limestone.
• Water island in garden
• Mums,bamboo species
• Pine tree: Longivity and age
• Banana: Youthfulness
MoGHuL GARDENS:
• The gardens laid out during the rule of Moghul
emperors are known as Moghal gardens.
• Babar was the first ruler to introduce this style to
India.
• Pleasure garden
• Tomb garden
MAIN FEATURES OF MOGHAL GARDENS:
 Choice of sight:- Moghuls always preferred hill slopes with a
perennial rivulet or along the banks of the river.
 Design:-Rectangular or square shape were preferred.
 Walls & gates:-These gardens are invariably enclosed by high
walls,sculptured artistically & with an imposing wooden gates
at the enterance studded with bold iron nails &pointed with iron
spikes.Purpose of high walls was to get protection from hot
winds and enemies.
 Terraces:-As moghuls came from hilly terraces, they were fond
of terraces in garden even they also created artificially.
 7 represents “planet”, 8 represents “paradise”,& 12 represents
zodiac.
Ex:-Nishantbhag in Kashmir is built with 12 terraces.
Hilly slope

Design
Protecting wall
Terrace
 Running water:-The style of having running water was taken
from persian gardens.It was life of moghul gardens.T
• he water canals were paved with tiles/marbles of blue colour
to creat the illusion of depth.
• The water canals used to have fountains,which when
illuminated in the night created beautiful reflections.
• The fascination for water came from a Muslim faith which
says that,the “promised paradise is a place where cooling
water flows”.
 Tombs:-It was a common practice to have gardens built
around tombs.
 Ex:Taj Mahal at Agra,Akbars tomb at sikandra.
• Baradari:-It is an arbour like structure made up of masonary
& stones with a pakka roof & a raised platform for sitting
provided with 12 doors 3 on each side or on all sides for the
emperors to watch the performance of dancing girls.
water

Tomb
Baradari
• Symbolism:-Water :“source of life”,
• Safed kachnar(Bauhinia alba): “youth & life”.
• Flowering trees : “renewal of life.”
• Cypress: immortality

 Garden is divided in to 3 parts:


• Rectangular, long & circular.
 Spring flowering trees : Safed kachnar, Beutia monosperma
Michelia champaka, chandan etc.
 Fragrant shrubs: Parijata, Harichampa etc.
 Annuals:Carnation, Narcissus, Daffodils etc.
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