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| A view of an English garden |
The most popular style of gardens in
Europe is, as long as I investigated about it, the English gardens. They
appeared in the early 18th century and spread across Europe.
Actually, it is said that English gardens took inspiration from some paintings of
landscapes, and surprisingly, from classic Chinese gardens. It is the
peculiarity of the English gardens that they usually have a lake and recreations
of classical temples. Later, it spread throughout Europe.
There are three
great creator of the English landscape garden. William Kent (1685-1748) is at
once a painter and interested in architecture, but not a gardener. He made a
garden with extremely natural landscape. Next, Lancelot Brown (1716-1783),
famous as Capability Brown, has a gift for gardener; he could tell what to
remove from a garden, where to put an accent and which to root the plants at
once. He is enthusiastic particularly about creating a lake, and then, he plant
trees around it. In addition, his garden is said that it is too natural to identify
whether it is the natural one or not. Humphrey Repton, the last of the three,
was good at painting watercolor. He renovated some gardens and established “The
Red Book”; he drew watercolor of the before and after of the gardens he
renovated and the book became popular. His gardening style followed Brown’s
one.
Roman gardens are influenced by Egyptian,
Persian and Greek gardens. The Roman garden is made up by three parts; the terrace, the ambulation, and the gestation.
The terrace is used as a drawing room. The ambulation is a space for
recreation or conversation. The gestation is avenue and usually it encircles
the ambulation. Then, today’s Italian gardens are influenced from Renaissance.
There are a lot of sculptures made of stones.
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| Conimbriga Roman Garden, |
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| An Italian garden |
The beginnings of the French formal
gardens are back to the era of the Renaissance. Some Italian landscape
architects brought gardening plans into France and it spread throughout the
country. They are symmetric gardens. The views of them are like that shrubs and
lawns are spread regularly through the large area and it makes passages. In
addition, French formal gardens usually have castles. By the way, France is the
birthplace of rose gardens.
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| French garden |
Another garden birth in Europe is winter
garden. Winter garden is the way to glow plants indoors through winter which
are not good at cold climate. Many part of the roof is made of glass. The first
winter garden was built in London.
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| Winter grden |
references
http://www.pcc-gardendesign.net/lesson-F-history/F-garden-history.htm
Wikipedia (English landscape garden, Gardens of the French Renaissance, French landscape garden, Italian Renaissance garden, Rose garden, Winter garden)
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