Gardening in other cultures is also
interesting. Three traditional gardens are introduced below but there are more great
garden styles in the world not referred here.
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| A Chinese Garden |
First, Chinese gardens have long history;
more than 3000 years. They look similar to Japanese ones, though history of
each gardens are different. A typical Chinese garden today has pounds and halls
and pavilion. Visitors walk through winding paths and enjoy change of scenery.
In contrast with Japanese ones, there are more stones and buildings than
Japanese. Moreover, Chinese gardens have main composition and all of the other
elements of garden are rely on it. On the other hand, Japanese one does not
have such formation but each part of the garden are independent from each
other. As an another difference, Chinese gardens are larger than Japanese ones.
Maybe, people don’t live in these countries feel difficult to distinguish
Chinese garden from Japanese one.
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| A Tropical Garden |
Second, Tropical gardens are also
beautiful. This kind of garden contains many species of characteristic tropical
plants. They have large green leaves or bright flower petals. There are some
tropical gardens in cold climate areas. Actually, some species of tropical
plants can live in colder climate; on the condition that careful consideration
of placing plants and flowers to get appropriate sunlight. Even so, tropical
plants and flowers are good in warm climate. And more, generally, in tropical garden, there are more foliage plants than flower plants. Frangipani is one kind of a
popular tropical plant with cute flower, especially seen in Hawaii. Hibiscus is
also famous tropical flower known with red elegant petals. Ferns or papaya tees
are popular plants of trppical garden too.
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| Flowers of Frangipani |
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| Eram Garden |
Third, Persian gardens, typified in the
Taj Mahal or Eram Garden, place importance on structures. This kind of garden
influence many other gardens west from Spain, east to India. Persian garden has
so long history back to 4000B.C.E. Original Persian gardens imitate “The Garden
of Eden”, that seems four livers and four quadrants represent the world. As
these words represents, Persian garden has four rivers and a castle in the
center of the garden. In 2011, nine Persian gardens in Iran are registered as
the World Heritage Site; they are Pasargad Persian Garden, Chehel Sotoun, Fin
Garden, Eram Garden, Shazdeh Garden, Dolatabad Garden, Abbasabad Garden,
Akbarieh Garden and Pahlevanpour Garden. By the way, Taj Mahal is in India but
called the largest ‘Persian garden’. Buildings are Indian style but composition
of garden is the very Persian garden.
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| Taj Mahal |
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| A structure of Persian garden |
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