A formal garden or French garden is a neat and ordered garden laid out in carefully planned geometric and symmetric lines. A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form Villandry is a commune of the Indre-et-Loire département in France. Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. A garden is a planned space usually outdoors set aside for the display cultivation and enjoyment of Plants and other forms of Nature. Lawns and hedges in a formal garden must always be kept neatly clipped. Trees, shrubs, subshrubs and other foliage is carefully arranged, shaped and continually trimmed. A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree A subshrub ( Latin suffrutex) is a Horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody Perennial plant. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis.
The simplest formal garden would be a box-trimmed hedge lining or enclosing a carefully laid out flowerbed or garden bed, such as a knot garden. A flowerbed is an element of many Gardens A flowerbed is a garden area especially prepared for growing Flowers The area is typically marked off often by low-lying Knot gardens were first established in the UK in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The most elaborate formal gardens contain pathways, statuary, fountains and beds on differing levels.
The French formal garden had its origins in sixteenth-century Italian gardens such as Boboli Gardens behind Palazzo Pitti, Florence, laid out by a series of architect-designers for the Grand Duchess Eleanor of Toledo. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Boboli Gardens, in Italian Giardino di Boboli, form a famous park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a distinguished collection of sculptures dating The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance Palace in The formal parterre was transferred to France, where some of the earliest formal parterres were those laid out at Anet. A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form Anet is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Claude Mollet,the founder of a dynasty of nurserymen-designers that lasted deep into the 18th century, introduced the formal parterre. Claude Mollet (ca 1564-shortly before 1649 premier jardinier du Roy &mdashfirst gardener in fact to three French kings Henri IV, Louis XIII and the young
Features of a formal garden:
- terrace
- topiary
- statuary
- hedge
- bosquet
- parterre
- sylvan theater
- pergola
- pavilion
- landscaping
- garden design
Formal gardens were a feature of the stately homes of England from the introduction of the parterre at Wilton House in the 1630s until such geometries were swept away by the naturalistic landscape gardens of the 1730s, but perhaps the best-known example of a formal garden of gravel, stone, water, turf and trees with sculpture is at Versailles, which is actually many different gardens, laid out by André Le Nôtre. In Gardening, a terrace is an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a Prospect. Topiary is the art of creating Sculptures in the medium of clipped Trees, Shrubs and Sub-shrubs The word derives from the Latin A statue is a Sculpture in the round representing a person or persons an animal or an event normally full-length as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size For the surname Bosquet see Bosquet (surname. In the French Formal garden, a bosquet (French from Italian bosco, "grove A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form A sylvan theater is a type of Outdoor theater situated in a wooded (sylvan setting A pergola is a Garden feature forming a shaded walk or passageway of pillars that support cross beams and a sturdy open lattice upon which woody vines are trained In Architecture a pavilion (from French, "pavillon" from Latin "papilio" has two main significations Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land including but not limited to living elements, such as Garden design is the art and process of Designing and creating plans for layout and planting of Gardens and Landscapes Garden design may be done by the garden A stately home is strictly speaking one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century as well as converted Wilton House is an English country house situated at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal Château in Versailles, in France 's Île-de-France region André Le Nôtre ( March 12, 1613 &ndash September 15 1700) was a Landscape architect and the gardener of King Louis XIV In the early eighteenth century, the publication of Dezallier d'Argenville, La théorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709) was translated into English and German, and was the central document for the later formal gardens of Continental Europe. The family of Dezallier d'Argenville produced several writers and connoisseurs in the course of the eighteenth century
Formal gardening in the French manner was reintroduced at the turn of the twentieth century: Beatrice Farrand's formal gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC and Achille Duchêne's restored water parterre at Blenheim Palace are examples of the modern formal garden. Dumbarton Oaks is a 19th century Federal-style Mansion with famous gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D Achille Duchêne (1866-1947 was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by André Le Nôtre. Blenheim Palace is a large and Monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. New York City’s Central Park features a formal garden in the Conservatory Garden at the northern sector. The City of New York Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually
- Blomfield, Reginald Theodore. The Formal Garden in England. Google Books
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