LAPUZ, Rhomaye Triz S.

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August 25, 2016
DIFFERENT TYPES OF GARDENS
I.

CHINESE GARDENS

II.

Emphasis is being given to buildings

These are in the center of the garden, occupying a large part of the garden
space.
They are very elaborate, with much architectural decoration
Designed to be seen from the inside, from the buildings in the center of the
garden.
These are usually symmetrically designed along straight axes.
Rocks were selected for their extraordinary shapes or resemblance to
animals or mountains, and used for dramatic effect. They were often the
stars and centrepieces of the garden.
DUTCH GARDENS

Distinguished by its dense atmosphere and efficient use of space.

A particular type of rectangular garden space often enclosed within
hedges or walls, even if part of a larger garden or parkland.
A highly cultivated and geometrical, often symmetrical, fashion, shaped by
dense plantings of highly coloured flowers, and edged with box or other
dense and clipped shrubs, or low walls (sometimes in geometrical patterns),
and sometimes, also, with areas of artificial water, with fountains and water
butts, which were also laid out in symmetrical arrangements.

III.

ENGLISH GARDENS

Blenheim Palace Park

There are
different
designs, from
open spaces
a few trees
creative use
water to form

IV.

vast
with
and
of
lakes.
They have formal layout, where planting becomes an art form. Using color
and mass to create beauty.
Many people transform their garden into a room, decorating it to look
interesting but some just keep it simple.
EGYPTIAN GARDENS
Hamilton Garden

Probably
began
as
simple
fruit
orchards and
vegetable
gardens,
irrigated with
water
from
the Nile. Gradually as the country became richer, they evolved into
pleasure gardens, with flowers, ponds and alleys of fruit and shade trees.
Temples, palaces, and private residences had their own gardens, and
models of gardens were sometimes placed in tombs so their owners could
enjoy them in their afterlife.
V.

FRENCH GARDENS
Gardens of the Palace
of Versailles

It
by the Italian Renaissance Garden

was

inspired

VI.

Symmetry and geometry are the keywords when designing such gardens.
The whole of garden is composed like a painting reaching for pure
aesthetical qualities.
Like painting, it is also created to be seen as a whole.
Most French gardens were designed to be looked at from specific places,
such as terraces or balconies.
The overall impression of French gardens is one of harmony, one power of
man over nature, where every tree and every bush is given a chosen
location and shape.
GREEK GARDENS

VII.

The Greeks were not great gardeners. They sometimes planted trees to
provide shade around temples and other public places but pleasure
gardens were rare. The Greeks did grow flowers but usually in containers.
Although Greek travelers admired the gardens of the east, in Greece
gardens were usually grown for practical reasons.
The Greeks grew orchards, vineyards and vegetable gardens.
ISLAMIC GARDENS

Sheesh Mahals
Formal Garden

VIII.

The key to the gardens of the Islamic world was the idea of an oasis. All
around stretch bare hills in the burning sun.
Within the garden wall, the essentials are cool shade and the sight and
sound of water.

ITALIAN GARDENS

The Palazzo Piccolomini at Pienza, Tuscany

IX.

JAPANESE GARDENS

X.

It was based on symmetry, axial geometry and on the principle of imposing

order over nature.
It was influenced by Roman gardens and Italian Renaissance gardens.

The architecture in a Japanese garden is largely or partly concealed.

The buildings are well apart from the body of water.
The buildings are simple, with very little ornament.
It was later designed to be seen from the outside
The structures in a Japanese garden from the Edo period onward are
organized asymmetrically.
Rocks were smaller and placed in more natural arrangements which are
integrated into the garden.
KOREAN GARDENS
Changdeokgung

XI.

It is natural, informal, simple and unforced, seeking to merge with the

natural world.
It was developed under the influence of Chinese gardens.
The garden involves both the people within it, and the buildings, in an
unforced and at times irregular asymmetry.
Total landscape flows in a natural and progressive way without being
forced, or ritualized.
It is generally classified into eight categories: palaces, private residence,
country village or Byolso, pavilions, Buddhist temples, Seowon, royal
funerary grounds and villages.
MALAYSIAN GARDENS

XII.

Malaysian garden - being established to be known as Malay Garden.

The garden does not even have a complete design model if compared to
the other garden concept such as Japanese garden, Chinese garden, etc.
The garden lies or conceptualized in the religion and culture of the Malays
(Malaysian)
One of its advantageous concepts is how they adopt the landscape
development in Malaysia through the arts and culture of Malaysian
community.
From their beliefs, values, philosophical beauty, etc. where all incorporated
to the true meaning of the garden.
MUGHAL GARDENS

Mughal gardens are a group of gardens built by the Mughals in the Islamic
style of architecture.
This style was influenced by Persian gardens and Timurid gardens.
Significant use of rectilinear layouts is made within the walled enclosures.

XIII.

XIV.

Some of the typical features include pools, fountains and canals inside the
gardens.
Had handsome walls and great gateways, more like forts than gardens.
Most important feature is Char Bagh planning.
Symbols were incorporated into the gardens in many ways
Include trees of various sorts, some to provide shade merely, and others to
produce fruits.
It might include a raised hillcock at the center, reminiscent of the mountain
at the center of the universe in cosmological descriptions, and often
surmounted by a pavilion or palace.
PERSIAN GARDENS

The Persian garden was an answer to the aridity of the local climate where
the high walled garden and the shady trees with its air cooled by streams
and fountains, was a simple recipe for paradise
Sunlight and its effects were an important factor of structural design in
Persian gardens.
Textures and shapes were specifically chosen by architects to harness the
light.
The Persian style often attempts to integrate indoors with outdoors through
the connection of a surrounding garden with an inner courtyard.
ROMAN GARDENS

The garden was a place of peace and tranquillity a refuge from urban life
and a place filled with religious and symbolic meanings. As Roman culture
developed and became increasingly influenced by foreign civilizations
through trade, the use of gardens expanded and gardens ultimately
thrived in Ancient Rome.

XV.

Roman gardens were laid out with hedges and vines. They also contained
a wide variety of flowers including acanthus, cornflowers and crocus,
cyclamen, hyacinth, iris and ivy, lavender, lilies, myrtle, narcissus, poppy,
rosemary and violet.
Roman gardens were adorned with statues and sculptures.
SPANISH GARDEN

It incorporates principles and elements of garden design from precedents

in ancient Persian gardens, Roman gardens and Islamic gardens, and the
great Moorish gardens of the Al-Andalus era on the Iberian Peninsula.
In the 20th and 21st centuries a 'Spanish Garden,' or new gardens in Spain,
have continued, interpreted, abstracted, or departed from these
traditional planning and aesthetic motifs.
Traditionally, the paradise garden is interpreted with a central cross axis, in
the four cardinal directions, with long ponds or water channels (a rill or
stylized qanat) where water reflects and flows, set in a walled courtyard.