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unusual facts about formal garden



Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

Both strongly influenced by the ideals of The Enlightenment, they aimed to overcome the formal garden concept of the Baroque era in favour of a naturalistic landscape as they had seen at Stourhead Gardens and Ermenonville.

University of Rhode Island Botanical Gardens and Everett P. Christopher Arboretum

The gardens feature a home garden and landscape, a Memorial White Garden, the Ericaceous Garden, the Annual Garden, the Formal Gardens and Graduation Stage, the Shade Garden, the Matthew J. Horridge Conservatory and the Chester Clayton Rose Garden.


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Bretby

This house had a formal garden that rivalled the garden of the Palace of Versailles in the 1640s.

Château Trpísty

The large formal garden was landscaped in the English style in the 19th century and contains today a rich collection of rare trees, among them a 19th century female Ginkgo tree.

George W. Marston House

The Formal Garden was designed by George Cooke, and redesigned in 1928 by landscape architect John Nolen for the Marstons’ 50th wedding anniversary.

Lasdon Park and Arboretum

William and Mildred Lasdon Memorial Garden (0.4 ha / 1 acre) - an entrance court with a fragrance garden; a formal garden with boxwood hedges, heather, flowering annuals and bulbs, and a central fountain; and a synoptic garden featuring hundreds of shrubs whose names represent every letter in the alphabet, from "A" (Abelia) through "Z" (Zenobia).

Leuralla

A formal garden lay out was used originally by Andreas and later Paul Sorensen improved the garden overall.

Louis J. Bader House and Garden

George Otten, a landscape engineer for the Oregon State Highway Commission, designed the property's formal garden, with paths of Italian marble, a sundial, a pergola, and a circular flower bed, among other features, at the rear of the house.

Villa I Tatti

Between 1907 and 1915 the seventeenth-century farmhouse became a Renaissance-style villa under the direction of the English architect and writer Geoffrey Scott, while a formal garden in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance style was laid out by the English landscape architect Cecil Pinsent.