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    french garden

    ELEMENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF A

    Reporters:
    Harrah C. Geminiano
    Arnold Tordevilla
    Armel Palapaz
    Throughout history, France has long been a source of style

    inspiration to the world from its extravagant architecture to

    its perfectly-manicured greenspaces.


    Brief

    History

    The form of the French garden was

    strongly influence by the Italian Gardens

    of the Renaissance, and was largely fixed

    by the middle of the 17th century.


    The French royal Garden achitects Andre'

    Mollet and Jacques Boyceau de la

    Baraudie're laid the groundwork for the

    supremacy of the French garden style

    under King Louis XIV.


    F r e n c hn
    garde
    Symmetry and geometry are the

    keywords when designing such garden.


    The classic French garden invokes

    images of bright lavender, ordered gravel

    paths, calm reflecting pools, symmetrical

    planting beds of boxwoods and shrubs—

    maybe a stone bench waiting for

    someone to rest on it.


    basic
    Stone

    Order and

    symmetry elements elements

    Neat
    Cool color

    and
    palette
    defined

    spaces
    garden of Ver s a i l l e s , f r a n c e
    Bosquet

    Components of the

    French garden

    Parterre. A planting bed, usually square or

    rectangular, containing an ornamental design

    Parterre
    made with low closely clipped hedges, colored

    gravel, and sometimes flowers. Paterres were

    usually laid out in geometric patterns, divided

    by gravel paths.
    Embroidery. A very curling decorative pattern

    within a parterre, created with trimmed yew,


    Embroidery
    bow, or made by cutting the pattern out of a

    lawn and illing it with colored gravel.


    Bosquet. A small group of trees, usually some

    distance from the house, designed as an

    ornamental backdrop.
    Alle'e. A straight path, often lined with trees.
    Topiary. Trees or bushes trimmed into

    ornamental shapes. In French garden, they are

    usually trimmed into geometric shapes.


    Allee Topiary
    FEATURES

    Neatly trimmed boxwood


    Gravel pathways, stone

    and hedges in bright green.


    planters and statuary, as

    The dark purple of the


    well as stone edgings that

    central water feature and


    lavender continues the cool

    cool colors. run along hedges.


    color palette..
    PLANTS AND TREES
    TREES
    Trees are planted in straight lines and clipped to

    keep a perfect shape and size.


    Trees that was used in the garen of Versaille were

    hornbeam, beech, chestnut, elm and linden.


    Hornbeam ang Beech are easy to prune and shape

    making them particularly good trees for formal

    gardens.
    HEDGES
    The clipped hedges are usually box, lavender,

    rosemary, and occasionally santoline. Regular

    trimming to stop them going 'leggy' and 'woody' is

    important.
    PLANTS
    Bedding plants and bulbs are popular choices for

    parterres. For example, parterres filled with bulbs in

    formal patterns for spring flowering and then taken

    out and replaced with bedding plants for the late

    spring and summer.


    w a y s d r a w n t o a c e n t r a l

    The eye is a l f w a t e r , a

    feature w h e t h e r a p o o l o
    chateau, e v e n a s t a t u e .

    French garden designers worked

    like architects, extending the

    concepts of geometry, optics, and

    perspective to the garden.


    The design is all about perspective

    because French gardens are

    meant to be viewed from all

    angles, even above from a terrace

    or window of a chateau.
    Above all else, symmetry and geometry are the

    main hallmarks of French gardens, imposing

    order over nature.


    The Gardens at Château de Vaux le Vicomte in Maincy

    The Gardens of Château de Villandry in Villandry


    The Hanging Gardens of Marqueyssac


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    for listening!

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