Italian Garden Design

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Italian garden design. Photograph by gabe hanway. See more of this low country kitchen garden in our 2017 considered design awards. A perfect italian garden brings them with fusion of formal and informal spaces.

See more ideas about outdoor gardens garden design garden inspiration. It basically displays careful design to showcase man s control over nature. Staircases balustrades cascades pavilions and pavements even the cypress avenues are imitations of colonnades.

Traditionally italian gardens are green with few flowers. Dec 20 2019 design ideas for an informal mediterranean italian themed residential garden. The geometrical plants take features 9.

However the evergreen foliage of these shrubs or trees offers a wide array of shades ranging from gray to. The italian renaissance garden was a new style of garden which emerged in the late 15th century at villas in rome and florence inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond for contemplation and for the enjoyment of the sights sounds and smells of the garden itself. The plants are mainly evergreens manicured into geometric hedges or topiaries.

Art and design exploded during the italian renaissance giving the world the sistine chapel the mona lisa and this garden aesthetic aristocrats in the 15th and 16th centuries displayed their wealth and power with majestic villas connected to symmetrical garden rooms that were divided by ivy covered stone walls sculpted boxwood hedges and cypress trees that stretched skyward like arrows. Formal italianate terraces laid out with box hedges gently flowing fountains and classical sculptures and a more relaxed mediterranean style with lavender. The origins of the style are to be found in ancient rome.

There s no single style in italian gardens they have been shaped by climate geography history and roman renaissance. Italian garden design style. 73 the thought of designing italian style patios maybe daunting for most people however if a few guidelines are followed we can easily suggest a strong italian theme in our gardens.