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Garden design can include different themes such as perennial, butterfly, wildlife, Japanese, water, tropical, or shade gardens.
Garden hotels, famous for their gardens before they became hotels, include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Categories include: fine arts, applied arts, craft, archaeology, anthropology and ethnology, history, cultural history, science, technology, children's museums, natural history, botanical and zoological gardens.
The museum is set in gardens, which include full-sized reconstructions of a Roman temple, a Roman shop, Roman house and Northumbrian croft, all with audio presentations.
The gardens include some glasshouses of architectural importance, such as the Palm House and the Curvilinear Range.
Other outdoor spaces that are similar to gardens include:
It is estimated that the project, which came to include manicured gardens, cost over two million livres.
Athens recreation facilities include a community recreation center, several city parks and play grounds, public gardens, soccer fields, an arts center called Arts West, two off-leash enclosed dog parks, and an extensive scenic trail system in the city lands, adjacent Strouds Run State Park, and the Blair Preserve owned by the Athens Conservancy.
The Banys Àrabs, or Arab Baths, one of the few remnants of Palma's Moorish past, are accessed via the quiet Ca ' n Serra street near the Convent of the Cathedral, and include the lush gardens of Ca ' n Fontirroig, home to Sardinian warblers, house sparrows, cacti, palm trees, and a wide range of flowers and ferns.
Its famous Renaissance gardens include a water garden, ornamental flower gardens, and vegetable gardens.
These gardens include a public display and a arboretum.
Other early influences include Ruth Stout and Esther Deans, who pioneered " no-dig gardening methods ", and Masanobu Fukuoka who, in the late 1930s in Japan, began advocating no-till orchards, gardens and natural farming.
Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge Dublin, which consists of a bridge over the railway and a bridge over the river Liffey ( unbuilt ) and two tiered sunken gardens ; Heywood Gardens, County Laois ( open to the public ) consisting of a hedge garden, lawns, tiered sunken garden and a belvedere ; extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle, Lambay Island near Dublin consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex, upgraded cottages and stores near the harbour, a real tennis court, a large guest house ( The White House ), a boathouse and a chapel ; alterations and extensions to Howth Castle, County Dublin ; the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha ' penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen's Green ; a Lodge at Costelloe, County Galway ( that was used for refuge by J Bruce Ismay the Chairman of the White Star Line following the sinking of the Titanic ) and a hunting lodge near Rosapenna in northern County Donegal, most recently used as a youth hostel.
Over the next 30 years the house was extended by new owners, firstly Alexander Aubert and then John Bentley, to include a large observatory and lavish gardens.
The former walled gardens include a tropical house housing plants and a large vegetable garden.
Other cultural amenities include some very good parks and gardens, particularly Barra Hall Park, which is maintained to a high standard by the local authority.
Some examples include historical places, monuments, zoos, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures ( e. g., castles, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges ), national parks and forests, theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, ethnic enclave communities, historic trains and cultural events.
In 2008 this survey extended to include all listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, protected wreck sites and conservation areas.
TCV's projects are varied and include community gardens, food growing projects, taking care of parks and nature reserves, tree planting and woodland management, dry stone walling and projects to increase biodiversity.
Further buildings outside the preserved gardens include the ruined Pyramid currently undergoing restoration, an Obelisk and several follies and eyecatchers in the form of fortifications.
The gardens of New College include a Mound ( which originally had steps, but is now smooth with one set of stairs ) and boast the largest herbaceous border within two hundred yards of the College.
The college has four major quadrangles, as well as a large lawn and gardens, which include a small area of woodland.
Other gardens of interest include the city's earliest botanical garden, the Jardin Dominique Alexandre Godron, and various other public gardens and places of interest including the Pépinière and Parc Sainte-Marie ( public gardens ).

gardens and topiary
The castle gardens contain a wide range of features including an Italianate garden, rose gardens, a herb garden, and topiary.
In the gardens there is a topiary lawn, herb garden, tropical garden and long herbaceous cottage garden-styled borders.
Authors of antiquity, such as Horace and Pliny, were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their descriptions of their own gardens, with alleys shaded by trees, parterres, topiary, and fountains.
The garden at Blickling contains formal and informal gardens, Grade II listed buildings and structures, woodland, specimen trees, Victorian garden ornaments, topiary, the kitchen garden ( open to the public ( 2010 ), and 18th century yew hedges.
* Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Discovering Antiquity Through The Dreams Of Poliphilus ( 2007 ) by Esteban Alejandro Cruz features more than 50 original colour reconstructions of the architecture and topiary gardens of eight monuments described in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: A Great Pyramid, A Great Hippodromus, An Elephant bearing an Obelisk, A Monument to the Un-Happy Horse, the Grand Arch, The Palace and Gardens of Queen Eleutirillide ( Liberty ), The Temple to Venus Physizoa, and the Polyandrion ( Cemetery of Lost Loves ).
Pliny's Natural History and the epigram writer Martial both credit Cnaeus Matius Calvinus, in the circle of Julius Caesar, with introducing the first topiary to Roman gardens, and Pliny the Younger describes in a letter the elaborate figures of animals, inscriptions, cyphers and obelisks in clipped greens at his Tuscan villa ( Epistle vi, to Apollinaris ).
Japanese Zen gardens ( karesansui, dry rock gardens ) make extensive use of Karikomi ( a topiary technique of clipping shrubs and trees into large curved shapes or sculptures ) and Hako-zukuri ( shrubs clipped into boxes and straight lines ).
Since its European revival in the 16th century, topiary has been seen on the parterres and terraces of gardens of the European elite, as well as in simple cottage gardens.
Although topiary fell from grace in aristocratic gardens, it continued to be featured in cottagers ' gardens, where a single example of traditional forms, a ball, a tree trimmed to a cone in several cleanly separated tiers, meticulously clipped and perhaps topped with a topiary peacock, might be passed on as an heirloom.
The revival of topiary in English gardening parallels the revived " Jacobethan " taste in architecture ; John Loudon in the 1840s was the first garden writer to express a sense of loss due to the topiary that had been removed from English gardens.
Interest in the revival and maintenance of historic gardens in the 20th century led to the replanting of the topiary maze at the Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, in the 1930s.
: A premier topiary garden started in the late 17th century by M. Beaumont, a French gardener who laid out the gardens of Hampton Court ( which were recreated in the 1980s ).
The wealthiest Romans built extensive villa gardens with water features, topiary and cultivated roses and shaded arcades.
The dominating feature of these individual gardens is the clipped hedges, topiary and flowering shrubs.
Ancient topiary hedges of Irish yew dating from 1702 separate the gardens into eight themed areas.
The 98 acres ( 400, 000 m² ) of landscaped grounds are divided into a number of walks and gardens, with classical statuary, topiary and flowerbeds.
It was similar to the topiary gardens made in Europe at the same time, except that European topieary gardens tried to make trees look like geometric solid objects, while o-karkikomi sought to make bushes look as if they were almost liquid, or in in flowing natural shapes.

gardens and display
Nonetheless, the gardens display a range of outdoor " habitats " such as a rockery, herbaceous border, rose garden, bog garden and arboretum.
Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens.
In addition to growing flowers for display and producing crops for eating, Jefferson used the gardens of Monticello for experimenting with different species.
Nowadays most botanical gardens display a mix of the themes mentioned and more: having a strong connection with the general public there is the opportunity to provide visitors with information relating to the environmental issues being faced at the start of the 21st century, especially those relating to plant conservation and sustainability.
A contemporary botanic garden is a strictly protected natural urban green area where a managing organization creates landscaped gardens and holds documented collections of living plants and / or preserved plant accessions containing functional units of heredity of actual or potential value for purposes such as scientific research, education, public display, conservation, sustainable use, tourism and recreational activities, production of marketable plant-based products and services for improvement of human well-being.
Near-eastern royal gardens set aside for economic use or display and containing at least some plants gained by special collecting trips or military campaigns abroad, are known from the second millennium BCE in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Mexico and China.
The present day Sadler's Wells has survived as heir to this tradition, after being rebuilt many times and many changes of use including pleasure gardens, theatre, aquatic display venue, circus, music hall.
Adjacent to the Fellows ' Garden are two other gardens: the Master's Garden, which is part of the Master's Lodge and separated from the Fellows ' Garden by a brick wall ; and the River Court, a small, brick-paved patch of land between Bright's Building and the River Cam, where seasonal flowers are on display in the flowerbeds.
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.
Mock-oranges are popular shrubs in parks and gardens, grown for their reliable display of late spring flowers ; the scented species are particularly valued.
Ossorio used the house as a gallery to display art collections and worked for 20 years in the gardens landscaping with exotic conifer species in groves dotted with his brightly-colored found art sculptures.
While David's project was not finished, large numbers of statues from royal residences were brought to the gardens for display.
Other specialty gardens at BBG include: the Discovery Garden, designed for young children ; the Herb Garden ; the Lily Pool Terrace, which includes two large display pools and annual and perennial borders ; the Native Flora garden, the first of its kind in North America ; the Osborne Garden, a, Italian-style garden, and the Rock Garden, built around 18 boulders left behind by the glacier during the Ice Age.
At the beginning of the yam harvest, the yams stay on display in gardens for about a month before the gardener takes them to the owner.
Featuring dozens of tulip and daffodil fields as well as display gardens, gift shops, and tour activities, this festival attracts visitors of all ages.
The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island.
Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Institute grounds display of thematic gardens showcasing the gardening styles of different time periods in the American West.
It was only with the appointment of Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef in 1870 that more exotic animals were procured for public display, and the gardens and picnic areas were developed.
It has been suggested that, since " opium poppy and poppy straw " are listed in Schedule II of the United States ' Controlled Substances Act, a DEA license may be required to grow poppies in ornamental or display gardens.
A biennial Garden Festival is held in the spring of even numbered years to display some of the beautiful local gardens.
has a display of fourteen individual gardens, demonstrating gardening through the last 800 years.
A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower display.
Currently, Norman Lindsay's house and property is a popular tourist attraction in the Blue Mountains, not only for the art work on display but also for the beautiful gardens and bushwalk.

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