English Gardens

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English Landscape Garden (England) DALAL A. M. ALHOURANI 201210747 NADA MARWAN ALDADAH 201210749 ASALA ABDULHADI 201211436 MUNA FAHED ABOU FAYAD 201310898


Climate The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a temperate oceanic climate Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of England and Scotland, being closest to the Atlantic Ocean, are generally the mildest, wettest and windiest regions of the UK


Introduction The landscape is determined mainly by the different types of rock underlying it. In the south, chalk has produced the gently rolling hills of the Downs, while hard granite is the basis for the mountains of the north and the high moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor in the south-west


Introduction

Much of the land in England is flat (low lying) - less than 1000m above sea level, forming meadowlands and pastures and less than 10 percent of the area is covered by woodlands. Farmers raise animals or grow crops in . the fields


Introduction The landscape of England is more rugged in the north and the west. The highest elevations are in Cumbria and the Lake District in the west. The highest point in England is Scafell Pike, 978m, part of the Cumbrian Mountains in North West England, there are several other high peaks there too. The area of the Cumbrian mountains is the most rugged in England and is more commonly known as the Lake District after .the many lakes there


Introduction The wide expanse of Salisbury Plain occupies most of the central part of southern England. It covers an area of approximately 300 square miles ( 775 sq km) and is drained to the south by the River Avon. Sailsbury plain is a barren chalk plateau without trees and much of it is used . as a pasture for sheep Many people travel to see Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument located on Salisbury .Plain


HISTORICAL INFLUENCES

Formal planting pattern and styleCourtyard gardens were popular spaces for growing culinary and medicinal plants. As.well, vines, olives, fruit trees and vegetables grew on adjacent terraces Square and oblong colonnaded plots with fountains, pools, and pergolasadorned with vines and roses

Re-introduction of flower gardenInfluenced by both the Italian and French renaissance gardening eras -



THE EDNA AND FRANK C. MILLER ENGLISH GARDEN Dedicated in September 1998 to the memory of Edna and Frank , C. Miller by their son, Frank Miller Intimate focal points were framed by paired architectural details .or sculptured plant forms Sheared beech and cedar hedge forming a .symmetrical pattern of living green walls . Sculpted forms of different animals Uses pergolas (an arbour or covered walk) as a design feature in the garden. These provide windows through which one can observe the landscape, sculptures, fountains, trees and .parkland beyond the immediate garden The south view is designed for you to admire a .silver maple (Acer saccharinum)


THE EDNA AND FRANK C. MILLER ENGLISH GARDEN

.Maple wood

There is an English oak (Quercus robur)

The woody and herbaceous plantings in the English garden


THE EDNA AND FRANK C. MILLER ENGLISH GARDEN


Somerleyton Maze


English Landscape Garden

Also called English landscape park or simply the English garden Is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in Europe the early 18th century, and spread across :-Principal Gardening Style Of Europe More Formal Symmetrical Usually included a lake Sweeps of gently rolling lawns set against groves of trees Recreations of classical temples Gothic ruins Bridges other picturesque architecture Geometric Anti-natural gardens Settings for social activities


Characteristics of the English garden Smaller scale and more filled with "eye-catchers" than most English landscape gardens: grottoes, temples, tea-houses, belvederes, pavilions, sham ruins, bridges and statues The dominant style, include more ,"gardenesque" features .including shrubberies with gravelled walks

Tree plantations to satisfy botanical curiosity

Flowers, in skirts of sweeping planted beds


Characteristics of the English garden Romantic elements presented as a pond or small lake . with a pier or bridge Overlooking the pond is usually a round or hexagonal pavilion ("Chinese" pavilion)

Cottage garden, is a special style of garden that uses an informal design, traditional , materials, dense plantings and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin


Stowe house The gardens (known as Stowe Landscape Gardens), a significant example of the English garden style


Old Dee Bridge, Chester

Is the oldest bridge in the city. It crosses the River Dee . The bridge on this site was first built in the Roman era


Englischer Garten One of the best-known English gardens in Europe is the .Munich Englischer Garten in


Summerizing video


The Temple of Ancient Virtue, Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire


Refrences

http://resources.woodlands-( 1 junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/land.htm http://www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum/collectionsandrese(2 arch/gardens-english.shtml http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/maze.aspx( 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-( 4 hxBdsDnypo


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