Landscape Styles
Mediterranean Style
Especial charm of terracotta pottery, herbs, clipped conifers, white sculptures, sand and gravel garden paths, highlighting the water in the pool – there is no indifferent people who are inclined to seek harmony in all.
The most popular decorative elements in Mediterranean garden are grottoes and paths-pergolas covered with ivy or other plants. A characteristic feature of modernity - the appearance in a garden of cane or wrought-iron garden furniture and sun umbrellas and awnings stretched over light pergolas, arbors.
Moorish Style
Moorish gardens:
Moorish gardens were derived from oases - the main joy of a person living in the desert. That's what determined the main features of Moorish style in landscape design - the abundance of green, lush exotic flowers, bright colors, as well as water features, all that is what nomad lacks in the sandy desert.
The oriental gardens are characterized by the desire for maximum splendor on the background of the need to save water resource. Water reservoirs in Moorish gardens - ponds, fountains, channels are usually small in size but are arranged so that the water all the time was in sight.
In the Moorish gardens features geometric accuracy, but unlike the regular style gardens, here adjusted geometric plan that mimics the eastern ornament, combined with the natural vegetation riot.
J Japanese gardens:
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The fashion for Japanese gardens existed for a long time, and still interest in this style is not waning. Fundamentals of Japanese style borrowed from the Chinese, which Asians further developed in accordance with their world vision.
The first Japanese gardens created sages and philosophers. They believed that the disclosure of secrets of life lies in the understanding of nature and its contemplation. In addition, the Japanese have always worshiped the mountains, waterfalls and trees, placing them in a range with same creatures as humans and animals.
Japanese gardens are divided into several types, depending on the basis of accent. It can be gardens of stones, water, trees, seasons, or moss. Mixing these elements in a garden is allowed, herewith great importance is attached to the alignment of stones. Japanese believed that every stone has its own face, his character and placement. Positioning should be from right to left, it is considered that that this is way human’s eyes move.
The best-known example is the garden rock garden of the monastery Reandzi created in the late XV - early XVI century, in the ancient Japanese capital ofKyoto
The most important is that if you look from every part of the veranda, of 15 stones can be simultaneously observed only 14.
In general, the garden creates an impression of the sea, washing the group of islands. Or it seems that you are high above the ground and watch the high mountain peaks through the clouds.
In the compositional and color Japanese gardens are closely associated with painting and need the perception of visual space by the laws of painting. The softness of colors, muted colors make these gardens look like paintings, made one-color ink. Paths, bridges, benches, lighting, fences and gates are integral parts of the garden. They are made of natural materials - bamboo, wood of different species, stone (the most common material), and sometimes of metal, usually iron. Any pained surface, closing the texture of the material, is excluded. "Old age" elements of the landscape are especially appreciated - moss or lichen on a stone, patina or rust on metal, dark-colored wood and stuff.
The first Japanese gardens created sages and philosophers. They believed that the disclosure of secrets of life lies in the understanding of nature and its contemplation. In addition, the Japanese have always worshiped the mountains, waterfalls and trees, placing them in a range with same creatures as humans and animals.
Japanese gardens are divided into several types, depending on the basis of accent. It can be gardens of stones, water, trees, seasons, or moss. Mixing these elements in a garden is allowed, herewith great importance is attached to the alignment of stones. Japanese believed that every stone has its own face, his character and placement. Positioning should be from right to left, it is considered that that this is way human’s eyes move.
The best-known example is the garden rock garden of the monastery Reandzi created in the late XV - early XVI century, in the ancient Japanese capital of
The most important is that if you look from every part of the veranda, of 15 stones can be simultaneously observed only 14.
In general, the garden creates an impression of the sea, washing the group of islands. Or it seems that you are high above the ground and watch the high mountain peaks through the clouds.
In the compositional and color Japanese gardens are closely associated with painting and need the perception of visual space by the laws of painting. The softness of colors, muted colors make these gardens look like paintings, made one-color ink. Paths, bridges, benches, lighting, fences and gates are integral parts of the garden. They are made of natural materials - bamboo, wood of different species, stone (the most common material), and sometimes of metal, usually iron. Any pained surface, closing the texture of the material, is excluded. "Old age" elements of the landscape are especially appreciated - moss or lichen on a stone, patina or rust on metal, dark-colored wood and stuff.
Paysage Style:
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Various resources, including literature, indicate that this landscape style originated in England England
English paysage style - not the result of ideas borrowed from the East, but the original phenomenon of British culture, embodying the idea of the naturalness and beauty of the world and people creating it.
This style is free, natural layout of the landscape; straightness, correctness of form and symmetry completely excluded.
The main feature of English paysage style is the absence of artificial landscapes and a hint of its artificial origin. Arrangement of parts and components is often used in "chaotic", and at the same time, carefully thought-out. Obligatory specialty of this style is rugged terrain with ravines, artificial and natural elevations, ponds of irregular shape. Compositions are created so that when you walk on the roads or paths, in the field of vision constantly get hidden for previous second details - every track curve - new experiences and unexpected solutions in the art of creating landscapes. Harmony in a combination of elements is the principal measure of completeness of the paysage landscape.
Paths should have winding structure, but the turns, thus, should not be contrived and sharp, the material of paths - always of natural origin or high quality imitating of it. This provision is consistent with the ancient Chinese teachings of Feng Shui. Smooth and winding lines must be presented in all elements of the landscape - in the form of weeping trees, natural stone and even the roofs of houses should not remain on the sidelines.
Important role in the paysage style of landscape compositions have water features, whether the pond, creek, small waterfall or cascade, and even decorative swamp; important thing is that they, as well as everything else seemed the most natural.
When selecting plants for planting, it is desirable to use species that are natural for your climate zone. However, in creating thematic compositions, to give additional color to the landscape,Mediterranean , Japanese or any other style, is acceptable and even necessary to take plants that are peculiar for the climate of that part of the world, which thematic designer use.
From the examples of landscape design in paysage style, of course, distinguished old English manor.
English paysage style - not the result of ideas borrowed from the East, but the original phenomenon of British culture, embodying the idea of the naturalness and beauty of the world and people creating it.
This style is free, natural layout of the landscape; straightness, correctness of form and symmetry completely excluded.
The main feature of English paysage style is the absence of artificial landscapes and a hint of its artificial origin. Arrangement of parts and components is often used in "chaotic", and at the same time, carefully thought-out. Obligatory specialty of this style is rugged terrain with ravines, artificial and natural elevations, ponds of irregular shape. Compositions are created so that when you walk on the roads or paths, in the field of vision constantly get hidden for previous second details - every track curve - new experiences and unexpected solutions in the art of creating landscapes. Harmony in a combination of elements is the principal measure of completeness of the paysage landscape.
Paths should have winding structure, but the turns, thus, should not be contrived and sharp, the material of paths - always of natural origin or high quality imitating of it. This provision is consistent with the ancient Chinese teachings of Feng Shui. Smooth and winding lines must be presented in all elements of the landscape - in the form of weeping trees, natural stone and even the roofs of houses should not remain on the sidelines.
Important role in the paysage style of landscape compositions have water features, whether the pond, creek, small waterfall or cascade, and even decorative swamp; important thing is that they, as well as everything else seemed the most natural.
When selecting plants for planting, it is desirable to use species that are natural for your climate zone. However, in creating thematic compositions, to give additional color to the landscape,
From the examples of landscape design in paysage style, of course, distinguished old English manor.
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