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| A Stair-like sculpture |
“The Garden of Cosmic Speculation”
is a sculpture garden in South West Scotland. Charles Jencks, landscape
architect and theorist, created this garden. It is made by 40 areas, gardens,
bridges, sculptures and so on. Through 30 acres of ground, there are a lot of
fairing shaped structures and natures. The atmosphere of these formed natures is
fantastic; up and down, curved ground etc. In addition, this garden is depicted
in orchestra music by Michael Gandolfi, an American composer.
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| Japanese garden of Butchart's |
“Butchart Gardens” in British
Columbia, Canada includes five areas; sunken garden, rose garden, Japanese
garden, Italian garden and Mediterranean garden. These areas make one way from
sunken garden to Mediterranean garden. Before the garden appears, there was not
a garden but all around limestone. Then, this garden began as a decoration of
that desolate quarry. Some roses and sweet peas were there, at first, but today
it becomes so large, almost twice as large as The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
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| Sunken garden with night light up |
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| Butchart garden with colorful flowers and brilliant trees |
“Yuyuan garden”, in Shanghai, is
one of famous Asian gardens. Yuyuan is represented in Chinese characters by “豫園”. “豫” seems “fun” or “preasure” and “園” seems a garden. This garden is said it is built more than 400
years ago, in the Ming Dynasity. There are Chinese-style (Shanghai-style)
structures, bridges, rocks, ponds and trees. Curving and zigzagging walls and
bridges tempt into the garden. Yuyuan garden itself is a traditional garden but
many high-rise building around it.
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| A zigzag bridge |
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| Mirabell Garden |
“Mirabell Garden” is a garden of Mirabell Palace which is in
Salzburg, Austria. It is registered as the UNESCO World Heritage Site. This
palace and garden were built in 1606. The remodeling of the garden is finished
in 1730 after some redesigning. But it is opened to the public in 1854. These
four statues around fountain and they are symbolized the four elements: fire,
air, earth and water. The palatial
symmetrical garden is great and it is noted for its boxwood layouts.
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| A Statue and Mirabell Palace |
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| Versailles Gardens with colorful flowers |
“Versailles Garden” is a garden of
very famous palace, Versailles Palace. Actually, total manpower to create this
garden is greater than to build the palace. Louis XIV gave the order to create
the palace and garden in 1661 and it took about 40 years to complete the garden.
There are many water places and Mediterranean trees such as oranges or lemon.
The symmetric and magnificent viewing with watercourses, plants and sculptures
must be so exciting for everyone.
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| Magnificent view of Versailles Gardens |
References
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%AB%E5%9C%92
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabell_Palace
http://www.salzburg.info/en/sights/fortress_palaces/mirabell_palace_gardens
http://jp.chateauversailles.fr/homepage
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A6%E5%AE%AE%E6%AE%BF
photos from:
http://www.chinatourguide.com/Shanghai/yuyuan_garden.html
http://www.chinaodysseytours.com/china-asia-tours/china-vietnam-highlights-tour-pictures.html
http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node27118/node27968/node26489/userobject22ai36129.html
http://holidayandtraveleurope.blogspot.jp/2013/02/france-versailles-gardens.html
http://www.bestourism.com/items/di/1293?title=Gardens-of-Versailles
http://howardchoy.wordpress.com/tag/a-garden-of-cosmic-speculation/
http://www.anothermag.com/reader/view/5449/The_Garden_of_Cosmic_Speculation
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