A formal garden is a garden with a clear structure, geometric shapes and in most cases a symmetrical layout. Its origin goes back to the gardens which...

The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry...

architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license. Amateur gardeners may also attain a high...

French garden. The French formal garden (French: jardin à la française) contrasted with the design principles of the English landscape garden (French:...

"landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which...

to perfection in the gardens of the emperor as the "good gardener". Notwithstanding a formal standardization, the landscape gardens also reflect diversity...

garden by architect Henry Hall between 1873 and 1878, during the major alterations to the house. The terrace offers expansive views over the formal garden...

Eccleston, in Cheshire, England. The house is surrounded by its own formal gardens, parkland, farmland and woodland. The estate covers about 10,872 acres...

significant changes to the property, most notably building the French formal garden; since his acquisition of the property in 1992. Born in 1947 to a Spanish...

The Alnwick Garden is a complex of formal gardens adjacent to Alnwick Castle in the town of Alnwick, Northumberland, England. The gardens have a long...

Russia. The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden. The formal garden was laid out in 1720 by masters...

known as the jardin à la française or French formal garden. The grandest example is found in the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century...

The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the...

parterre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns...

its landscaped park and formal gardens are also Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The formal gardens cover 12 acres (4.9 ha)...

west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectares of land, much of which is landscaped in the classic French formal garden style perfected here by...

de Buffon in the formal garden The Sophora Jussieu, planted by Buffon in the garden in 1747 The most celebrated head of the garden was Georges-Louis...

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their first floor equivalent. On the south side there had been large formal gardens, clearly shown in Dougharty's perspective drawing contained in the estate...

Concorde and the gardens of the Champs-Élysées. He kept the formal gardens and flowerbeds essentially intact, but turned the garden into a sort of outdoor...

since the mid-16th century. Sir John Carew Pole gave the house and formal gardens into the care of the National Trust in 1961, on the understanding that...

formal gardens, which had been requested by Vanderbilt for the grounds directly surrounding the house. He constructed a Roman formal garden, a formal...

tropical, or shade gardens. In 18th-century Europe, country estates were refashioned by landscape gardeners into formal gardens or landscaped park lands...

for the gardens: the greenhouse would act as a portal to the formal landscapes, of which there would be six main sections, the Walled Garden, the Vista...

the United Kingdom (formally, ambassador to the Court of St. James's). The grounds are 12 acres (4.9 ha), the largest private garden in London save for...

Afton Villa Gardens is a historic formal garden on the grounds of a former slave plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, U.S.. The land belonged to...

French formal garden was created from 1992 by a new owner, interior designer Jacques Garcia. It was inspired by sketches of the original garden, long vanished...

geometrical French formal garden (jardin à la française). Even during the lifetime of Louis XIV and his gardens of Versailles, the formal, symmetrical jardin...

and ponds and lakes as motifs. They became the epitome of the French formal garden style, and have been very influential and widely imitated or reproduced...

and gardens; he commissioned André Le Nôtre and Louis Le Vau to redesign the large parterre into a French formal garden. He removed the hanging garden which...