The Formal Garden Style
The western tradition in Landscape Design is formal or straight line and
symmetrical balance. Not until Europeans went to China in the 1700s
was there an informal or naturalistic style. It was in the last 16th Century
that European Garden Makers and builders embraced the China Style or
what came to be call Chinoiserie. This naturalistic style has been widely
used in the U.S.A.
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An exercise in Geometry for The Home Garden
The Formal Home Garden takes its cues particularly
from the house. You design using straight lines
mimicing the house, outbuildings, lot lines, and
street. If you want a lot of detail you create patterns of geometrical forms. Usually the pattern
is furnished in plants, gravel, or compost. Walkways
are positioned through the garden of squares, rectangles, or circles. Each gardening picture is
visually divided in half, with each half being a
mirror image.
In small lots in cities and towns, the formal design
usually looks better. In the country, around the house usually looks better with formal design with
naturalistic areas created around the boundaries to
the surrounding areas.
from the house. You design using straight lines
mimicing the house, outbuildings, lot lines, and
street. If you want a lot of detail you create patterns of geometrical forms. Usually the pattern
is furnished in plants, gravel, or compost. Walkways
are positioned through the garden of squares, rectangles, or circles. Each gardening picture is
visually divided in half, with each half being a
mirror image.
In small lots in cities and towns, the formal design
usually looks better. In the country, around the house usually looks better with formal design with
naturalistic areas created around the boundaries to
the surrounding areas.
The Home Garden in Formal Attire
All Western Garden Design was Formal before the 1700s.
These are books written on the formal style of gardening or
landscaping styles.
landscaping styles.
Mirrors of Infinity:: The French Formal Garden and 17th-Century Metaphysics
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Creating Formal Gardens
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Formal design in landscape architecture;: A statement of principles with special reference to their present use in America,
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New Classic Gardens: Formality Redefined for Today's Gardener (The Royal Horticultural Society)
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Creating Small Formal Gardens
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- windowbox windowbox Oct 11, 2008 @ 1:43 am
- great lens abt home gardening i also have some tips for the people who do not have such space for the gardening they can go for the container gardening and through using various form of the container gardening like Flower boxes, Flower Window Boxes we can bring natural beauty for the house..
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If you have a small lot, there is plenty of room tohave a formal garden, if you would like. For inspiration, turn to the books of Sir Roy Strong, he
show many small formal gardens he has designed.
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Art of the Formal Garden
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Visit formal gardens in the U.S. from coast to coast.
In New York City, visit the Frick Museum, both houseand garden, and also The Cloisters Museum in Fort
Tyron Park. In Kenneth Square, Pa.. visit the famous
Longwood Gardens. In Georgetown, Washington D.C.,vist
Dunbarton Oaks. A little further south, you will not
want to miss the Gardens of Williamsburg. Near Mrytle
Beach, South Carolina is Brookgreen Gardens, In Miami,
there is Viscaya. On the West Coast don't miss Filoli
and The Hearst Castle.
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More than just The Home Garden
Gardens to visit
- Smithsonian Institute
- This website also features American Architecture and Gardens.
- British Gardens
- This website is all about British Gardens.
- The Cloister Museum
- A beautiful garden and monastery in Fort Tyrone
Park in Manhattan. Although it isn't a home garden, perhaps it will inspire you it construct
a formal herb garden at your home. - The Mount
- The formal gardens in Massachussets design by the
famous writer, Edith Wharton. - Dumbarton Oaks
- The famous gardens in Georgetown, Washington,D.C.
designed by Beatrix Jones Farrand. - Brookgreen Gardens
- A lovely garden near Mrytle Beach, S.C. When I went as a child, it was mainly a Sculpture Garden.
It looks like it has expanded a great deal, or
either my memory is not so good. - Stanhywet House and Gardens
- The Gardens were began in 1911. Although it has
various rooms, it has a very lovely English Formal
Garden. The gardens are located in Akron,Ohio. - Hearst Castle Gardens
- One of the spectacular garden scenes is that of a
Roman Pool. - Old Westbury Gardens
- The Home and Gardens of the Phipps Family, now over 100 years old.
- The Gardens of Williamsburg
- Most gardens in Williamsburg are small formal gardens, very simple in design.
- Biltmore House and Gardens
- Such lovely gardens as planned by Frederick Law
Olmstead for George Washington Vanderbilt in the
mountains near Ashville, N.C. - Mt. Vernon House and Gardens
- The Gardens of the Father of Our Country. He was
a great farmer among other things.
Educate yourself on Classic Formal Gardens
Expand your horizons.
- How to Design A Garden and Other Topics
- Garden Visit.com
- Formal Gardening 101
- An Essay by Southern Living on Gardening 101.
- About.com
- Formal Garden Design 101
- Martha Stewart
- Garden Design 101
- Creating a Pet Friendly Garden
- I know it's hard. I have two dalmations and a lap
dog. - Bob Vila
- How to create a French Formal Garden in a small
place. - Design of a parterre.
- The Farmer's Almanac has a very practical article
on designing a parterre for your back yard. - How Stuff Works
- On the nature of designing a garden.
- Great website on Garden Design
- Essays on gardening.
- Southern Accents
- An article written by Mary Palmer Dargan and Kate
Bennett on Formal Gardens. - Links to Garden Art
- Links to art and decor for the garden.
- Old House Chronicle.com
- An historical survey of Formal Gardens since
Colonial times. - Life in Italy.com
- A fun Italian Gardening website.
- Design Principles
- Design Principles applied to landscape by Linda
Egstrom.
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