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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.
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 ).

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some were trash dumps, some had flower gardens.
Some have beautiful gardens -- some not even a blade of grass.
In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.
Kitchen gardens provided herbs, including some, such as tansy, rue, pennyroyal, and hyssop, which are rarely used today.
These tended to be wide and large, some of them used for hunting game on ( much as a game reserve would today ) and others as leisure gardens.
Fruit trees were common in these gardens and also in some, there were turf seats.
The reconstruction cost more than £ 2m and was criticised by some archaeologists as being a " matter of simulation as much as reconstruction ", due to the limited amount of factual information on the nature of the original gardens.
To the south of the Living Room is a pool deck, a hot tub, and some of the extensive grounds of the mansion, featuring gardens, hot air balloon landing pads, open fields, fishing holes, and the like.
Pembroke's enclosed grounds also house some particularly well-kept gardens, sporting a huge array of carefully selected vegetation.
Apartment buildings and a park are built over the former locations of his gardens and orchard, and some are named after their former functions: Roper's Garden is the park occupying one of More's gardens, sunken as his was believed to be.
Walter Wade and John Underwood, the first Director and Superintendent respectively, executed the layout of the gardens, but, when Wade died in 1825, they declined for some years.
From 1834, Director Ninian Nivan brought new life into the gardens, performing some redesign.
Although some measures have been taken by the Municipality to preserve these gardens, many illegal developments still endanger them.
Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants.
The Conservatives also attacked Lloyd George as lacking any executive accountability as Prime Minister, claiming that he never turned up to Cabinet meetings and banished some government departments to the gardens of 10 Downing Street.
Remnants of some of the gardens, pools, and rock ornaments are still present at Manzanar.
As Blunden says, " The game which made me write at all, is not terminated at the boundary, but is reflected beyond, is echoed and varied out there among the gardens and the barns, the dells and the thickets, and belongs to some wider field.
Although some of these lots have been redeveloped, many of them are now used by vendors, and some have been turned into playgrounds and, more recently, community gardens.
If the soils of India or Africa had produced some of them, they would have been imported before the 1860s into European gardens.
The Grange gardens are divided by the Winterbourne stream and contain formal bedding displays, a wildflower area, a knot garden and some notable trees, including a large Magnolia grandiflora, a mulberry tree dating perhaps to the seventeenth century and a tulip tree planted by Queen Elizabeth II.

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