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Style «the French garden» which also name regular, geometrical or formal style of landscape design, actively developed with XVII on a XVIII-th century. Such gardens were very popular at the time of Louis XIV, however the historical name of style not precisely as ideas of creation of regular gardens have appeared during the Renaissance epoch in Italy. The apogee style has reached in a XIX-th century in England where gardeners have learnt to grow up plants in the form of exotic forms (such as geometrical figures, animal, birds etc.). The basic idea of formation of the French garden in landscape design - an accurate order and symmetry in one.
To create style of landscape design «the French garden»:
- Generate the basic idea of creation of a garden. All elements on the plan should be geometrically correct, all bends should be constructed by means of compasses.
- Form the French garden so that it had two key points – bottom in which the front entrance, and top from which the kind on all garden opens is located. As the top point the house at which the garden is broken usually serves.
- If the site on which it is necessary to break the French garden, has a considerable difference of heights, a garden form the cascade of the equal terraces which connected by ladders and have been led round by retaining walls.
- for registration of the French garden cascades of fountains, the strict form pools, small пристенные фонтанчики Well will approach.
- Carefully select plants for gardening of the French garden. It is very important, that plants were well cut, were steady against illnesses, quickly accepted geometrically correct form and had monolithic enough appearance.
- the Integral part of the French park – carefully cut, equal green lawns.
- Necessarily use боскеты – exactly cut trees and the bushes forming green walls. With the help боскет it is possible to create lonely zones for rest and work in the open air.
- For the French garden the abundance of sculptures in antique style and the general atmosphere of solemnity and theatricality is characteristic.
- For maintenance of the French garden the permanent job of the gardener necessarily is required. It is necessary daily and carefully обстригать bushes, trees and lawns, to look after paths and flower beds.