Thoughts About Formal Gardens
Home » Plants & Animals » Garden Design » Thoughts About Formal Gardens My previous article was about the basilica garden designed by Hugh O'Connell. Hugh sent me an email in which he shared some thoughts on the subject of formal [... more]
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Planting Design Illustrated
 Excellent, practical and informative!: Chen really knows his stuff. This book is well organized, inspiring and informative. Planting Design Illustrated is one of the few books that actually discuss the design aspect of planting design. I like the plant [... more]
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The Garden at Bomarzo: A Renaissance Riddle
A TREASURE FOR HISTORIANS AND GARDEN ENTHUSIASTS: The Sacred Wood at Bomarzo, Italy is arguably the most puzzling and fascinating garden in all of Europe. Created in the mid-sixteenth century by Vincino Orsini, Lord of Bomarzo, as a tribute to his late [... more]
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Frommer's Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours
From Amazon.com: You are tootling along Italy's bucolic SS502, olive groves to the left of you, vineyards to the right of you, the rosemary-scented breeze in your hair, a picnic basket of focaccia, provolone, prosciutto, and a bottle of sangiovese in the [... more]
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Country Living Gardener The Successful Herb Gardener: ...
Nice overview: This is a nice compendium of information on the planting, propagation, harvesting, and use of a wide variety of herbs. Basic gardening is covered for situations including every style from formal gardens to containers on a balcony. Ideas [... more]
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New Formal Gardens Rhs Formality Updated For Todays
Author: Jill Billington Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781903845516 ISBN: 1903845513 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 2004-02-28 Release Date: 2004-02-28 [... more]
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Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and ...
The Quotation of Versailles: This book was recommended as further reading in my History of European Garden Design course, and proved helpful in understanding the quotation of Versailles to the imperial gardens of Rome, and then lead me to research why L' [... more]
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The Petit Trianon
This is the first article in a three part series about Marie Antoinette's garden at the Petit Trianon. People who love flowers often express their dislike for the formal gardens of the Château de Versailles, which is 10 miles (15 km) southwest of .. [... more]
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Gardens of Nudes - Part Three
This is the third in a series of articles about about nude statues in the formal gardens of Europe. In my previous article, I pointed out that the statues in ancient Roman gardens were usually either Greek antiques or copies of Greek antiques. ... [... more]
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Why We Do Not Cut Back Foliage?
Hiding daffodil foliage is a method that can be used to maintain the formal garden look in late spring. Some methods and solutions for the daffodil foliage is discussed in this week's article. The downside of having daffodils in landscaping and ... [... more]
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Gardens of Nudes - Part Five
This is the fifth in a series of articles about nude statues in the formal gardens of Europe. I began this series by saying that the gardens of Versailles are the ultimate expression of the formal European garden. This is very true of the ... [... more]
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Formal Gardens
There is no one style of formal garden, the formal tradition has produced a number of styles. All of them are rooted in the gardens of Imperial Rome. Republican Rome had disapproved of luxuries. Until the last century of the Republic, Roman ... [... more]
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