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Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Garden design may be done by the garden owner themselves, or by professionals of varying levels of experience and expertise. Most professional garden designers have some training in horticulture and the principles of design, and some are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license. Source
The French formal
garden, also called jardin a la
française, is a style of garden based on symmetry and the principle of
imposing order over nature. It reached its apogee in the 17th century with the
creation of the Gardens of Versailles, designed for Louis XIV by the landscape
architect Andre Le Notre. The style was widely copied by other courts of Europe.
The Garden a la française
evolved from the French Renaissance garden, a style which was inspired by the Italian
Renaissance garden at the beginning of the 16th century. The Italian
Renaissance garden, typified by the Boboli Gardens in Florence and the Villa
Medici in Fiesole, was characterized by planting beds, or parterres, created in
geometric shapes, and laid out symmetrical patterns; the use of fountains and cascades
to animate the garden; stairways and ramps to unite different levels of the
garden; grottos, labyrinths, and statuary on mythological themes. The gardens
were designed to represent harmony and order, the ideals of the Renaissance,
and to recall the virtues of Ancient Rome. Source
Garden design
is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting
of gardens and landscapes. Garden design may be done by the garden owner
themselves, or by professionals of varying levels of experience and expertise.
Most professional garden designers have some training in horticulture and the
principles of design, and some are also landscape architects, a more formal
level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state
license. Elements of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such
as paths, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking; as well as the
plants themselves, with consideration for their horticultural requirements,
their season-to-season appearance, lifespan, growth habit, size, speed of
growth, and combinations with other plants and landscape features.
Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including
the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the
choice of plants in terms of speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the
plants, whether annual or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other
characteristics. Source
