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Key features of a French garden design:

The focus of the garden tends to be the house, usually a
palace or chateau and paths radiate out of this creating
long axial views.
A geometric plan is used and symmetry is very
important.
A central axis leads away from the house perpendicular to the house.
Paths tend to be gravel and edged with clipped hedges
and topiary laid out in symmetrical patterns.
Water is often a key feature of French garden design
and lots of round pools and long rectangles of water
will be incorporated.
Fountains and cascades are also very common features.
Close to the house planting is kept low (no trees) and
tends to consist of parterres
Further from the house paths are often edged with trees,
these are almost almost always manipulated in some
way.
Trees are always planted in straight lines adding
perspective and reinforcing the symmetry of the garden.
Statuary is often used in French Garden Design.
Pavilions and 'follies' are often incorporated too.
there is almost always a terrace from where the garden
and its symmetry can be seen from above.

Trees along path

Pavilions

Topiary

Follies

Cascade

Water Feature

Plan of Versailles garden

Key features of a French garden design:

The English garden highlighted the variety of
nature and its capacity to inspire the
imagination.
It usually included
Ponds or a lake,
Wilder foliage,
Imitation ruins and grottos (often overrun by
this wilder foliage),
Expanses of rolling lawns and groves of trees.
Visitors to an english garden were invited to
wander its lawns, and the gardens were
conceived as spaces of natural fantasy rather
than geometric constructions of nature.

English garden" is characteristically

on a smaller scale and more filled
with "eye-catchers" than most English
landscape gardens: grottoes, temples,
tea-houses, belvederes, pavilions,
sham ruins, bridges and statues,
though the main ingredients of the
landscape
The ground is neither flat nor level.
The four outer edges of the garden do allow
enough grade to maintain the original drainage
on the property. Each of the four 'rooms' of the
garden tilts towards the center.
These natural pits will hold and retain water
and prevent excessive run-off during the
region's normal rain showers.
A labyrinth can be seen in the layout of the
pathway, which is more complex than it might
seem at first glance.
In addition to ornamental flowers, the peasants
would grow plants that served practical
purposes, such as:
Apple trees and other fruit trees for food
Culinary herbs such as thyme

Tradional styles of Japanese garden

Karesansui gardens
Karesansui gardens or "dry landscape gardens
were influenced mainly by Zen Buddhism
There is no water present in Karesansui gardens.
However, there is raked gravel or sand that
simulates the feeling of water.
The rocks and moss are used to represent ponds,
islands, boats, seas, rivers, and mountains in an
abstract way.
Example: Ryan-ji, temple in Kyoto

Ryoan Ji, Kyoto

Tsukiyama Gardens
They commonly strive to make a smaller garden
appear more spacious.
This is accomplished by utilizing shrubs to block
views of surrounding buildings, and the garden's
structure usually tries to make onlookers focus on
nearby mountains in the distance.
Ponds, streams, hills, stones, trees, flowers, bridges,
and paths are also used frequently in this style.
Chaniwa Gardens
These Gardens are built for holding tea
ceremonies.
The styles of both the tea hut and garden are based
on the simple concepts of the Sado.
There are :
Stepping stones leading to the tea house
Stone lantern
Stone basins where guests purify themselves
before a ceremony.

Ryoan Ji, Kyoto

Ritsurin Garden, Kayawa

Katsura Garden, Kyoto