4. French Classical Garden

French Le Notre’s Style Garden is a symbol of absolute monarchical autocracy in the 17th century. Le Notre was a master in terms of French classical gardens.

  French Classical Garden

The garden pattern shows the authority of king

Le Notre’s Style Garden adopts the geometric grids with clear subordination and rigorous order. The mansion is located at the highest point of the garden, standing as the command. The central axis through the garden heavily decorated by flowerbeds, statues, fountains and pools is the visual center of the entire garden. In terms of waterscape, Le Notre’s Style Garden mainly displays the static waterscape and focuses on creating the mirror-like waterscape.

Classical Versailles Palace’s embroidered flowerbed show

In respect of plant cultivation, Le Notre’s Style Garden widely uses plenty of broad-leaved trees and embroidered flowerbeds. In the design, we places embroidered flowerbeds that consist of 100-meter stone, grass, and flowers. Such an arrangement can be found in the Versailles Palace on the both sides of the central axis. Outside the embroidered flowerbeds are plants used as the background. The tree-shaded paths cross through the plants in the middle of them. There are four miniature pools symbolizing “Spring”, “Summer”, “Autumn”, and “Winter” at the ends of the shady avenues. In each pool center is an exquisite golden statue. The western end of the axis extends into the water and pulls people's attention to the distance, while there are two fine white marble statues on each side of the eastern end of the axis. The central waterscape is three copper-head-sculpture wall fountains with the ripple of the water.

5. Spanish Islamic Garden

Spanish Islamic garden is also known as Moorish garden. Affected deeply by ancient Roman manors, the Moorish garden is specially built on the hillside. The slope will be transformed into a series of terraces. When High walls enclose the slope, a closed space will be formed. In the closed space, the water sceneries such as cross- or parallel canals, channels, and fountains arranged along the axis of the garden divide the garden space. Moorish garden generally applies a large area of colorful ceramic mosaic for its pavement and creates ornamental perforated windows on the walls for view borrowing.

  Spanish Islamic Garden (I)

This garden’s prototype is famous Court of Lions in Alhambra Palace, Spain. The garden is a rectangular palace, about 35 meters long and 20 meters wide, surrounding by a marble-column covered corridor. There is pavilion-type architecture in the garden, which is built according to Cistercian clean hand room. The round roof is decorated with the beautiful filigree patterns while the ground is ornamented with Arab image- or words-shaped seasonal flowers. The cross-like channels in the middle of the garden bring vitality to the entire garden.

In the garden center is a fountain surrounded and supported by 12 lions. In the past, 12 lions could count time and there would be a lion to spray water every hour. The crossroads in the courtyard symbolize four roads in heaven, which stand for harmony, balance, and years rolling in Moorish religion.