Italian Garden Landscaping
Topiaries can also replace the trees.
Italian garden landscaping. While grand formal gardens are seen throughout europe italian gardens are unique for their emphasis on fruits and herbs integrated into the plantings whether in pots beds or along stone walls or famously in grape arbors a staple in italian garden design. Other green plants are massed within the borders of the geometric beds. Italian cypress cupressus sempervirens boxwoods buxus spp and junipers juniperus spp are commonly used to delineate the various parts of the garden. They seem to embody the very soul of the italian renaissance.
See more ideas about italian garden italian villa beautiful gardens. Not to forget pergolas smothered with fragrant climbers such as jasmine wisteria roses. See more ideas about italian landscaping mediterranean garden garden design. Villa d este gardens at tivoli the extensive series of gardens created by renaissance cardinal ippolito d este to surround his villa stand at the pinnacle of italian garden design and are in fact the model for formal gardens across the continent and world.
Shrubs and hedges are the main green elements of italian gardens. Despite its bucolic english setting the garden was inspired by an italian courtyard. The best known italian gardens are all about rigorous symmetry which is normally achieved with tightly clipped evergreens a style inherited from the renaissance which was in turn influenced by the orderly and grand style of roman gardens. They are planted extensively throughout the garden usually dividing the garden into symmetrical parts framing fountains or trees.
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