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1. French Landscape

2. French Formal Garden The  French formal garden , also called the  jardin à la française  (literally, "garden in the French manner" in French), is a style of garden based on  symmetry  and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its epitome is generally considered to be the  Gardens of Versailles  designed during the 17th century by the landscape architect André Le Nôtre   for Louis XIV and widely copied by other  European courts .

3. Common characteristics of a French garden: The residence - Should be the number one focal point in the French landscape style. The home is often the center point of the design with large paths that provide axial views. Geometric plan - Virtually everything in the design is geometric and planned with symmetry. Water - Is incorporated as a number one element within the landscape. Referred to as “reflecting pools” in circular, oval and rectangular shapes. Terraces - Are located in the landscape where the entire garden and all of its detail can be viewed.

4. Parterres -The intricate patterns created from hedged shrubs or planting beds are usually designed in near proximity to the residence. These designs are less detailed the further away they are from the house. Statuary -Is a key feature as your making your way through the French garden. During the rise of the French garden design era, Follies were introduced as a type of statuary in the garden. A folly is a building constructed for decoration, the point was to create these garden ornaments that were beyond the typical garden sculpture.

5. Elements within French gardens: Concrete balustrade cast iron seating Fountains pea gravels Cast iron/wood planters simple elegent furnitures

6. Natural stone glazed pots antiques columns trellises bridbaths

7. Key Features The focus of the garden tends to be the house, usually a palace or chateau and paths radiate out of this creating long axial views. A geometric plan is used and symmetary is very important. A central axis leads away from the house perpendicular to the house. Paths tend to be gravel and edged with clipped hedges and topiary laid out in symmetrical patterns. Statuary is often used in French Garden Design.Pavillions and “ follies”are often incorporated too.

8. The French gardens were inspired by the “Italian Renaissance garden”. Symmetry and geometry are the keywords when designing such gardens. The whole of garden is composed like a painting reaching for pure aesthetical qualities. Like a painting, it is also created to be seen as a whole. The French Garden

9. The First French Garden Creating a setting for the ‘Chat Eau Vaux-I e-vi. And outbuildings out of a wild area of around 100 acres(40hectares)by LE NOTRE CREATED for the first and only time in the 17 th century,A perfect harmony between architecture and its environment(landscaping).

10. example of french landscape Parc Monceau Rotunda, in Parc Monceau, (1787) built as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General Parc Monceau (French pronunciation: ​[paʁk mɔ̃so]) is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotunda. The park covers an area of 8.2 hectares (20.3 acres).

11. Features Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Le Parc Monceau, oil on canvas, 1877 The park is unusual in France due to its "English" style: its informal layout, curved walkways and randomly placed statues distinguish it from the more traditional, French-style garden. It includes a collection of scaled-down architectural features, or follies — including an Egyptian pyramid, a Chinese fort, a Dutch windmill, and Corinthian pillars. A number of these are masonic references, reflecting the fact that Philippe d'Orléans was a leading freemason. Parc Monceau includes statues of famous French figures including Guy de Maupassant, Frédéric Chopin, Charles Gounod, Ambroise Thomas, Alfred de Musset, and Edouard Pailleron. Today, the park has play areas for children and remains very popular with local residents and their families. The site is an active free Wi-Fi area, for computer users looking for Internet access. Parc Monceau is open daily from sunrise to sunset, with extended hours in the summer months. There are nine gated entries that are monitored by a fifth-generation park watchman who lives above the royal rotunda at the north entrance.[citation needed] The park is listed as grade II semi-private and the six private residences located directly on the park have twenty-four-hour access to the grounds.

12. The classical colonnade in Parc Monceau (1778) The Egyptian Pyramid (1778) in Parc Monceau Parc Monceau : Denkmal Guy de Maupassan Parc Monceau Paris - The Italian Bridge

13. T he Palace of Versailles. Gardens of the Château de Chantilly The "Basin of Apollo" in the Gardens of Versailles. Parterres  of the  Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles Gardens of the Grand Trianon  at the Palace of Versailles.

14. Plants and Trees to use in French Formal Design Tress are planted in straight lines and clipped to keep a perfect shape and size. They may be formed into shapes to form topiary. Trees used in the “Gardens of Versaille ” were:- H ornbeam,Beech,Chestnut,Elm and Linden for the most part. Hornbeam and Beech are easy to prune and shape of making them particularly good trees for formal gardens. The  chestnut  group is a genus ( Castanea ) of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family  Fagaceae native to temperate  regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Elm tree is the genus a tree of the genus ulmus of the family ulmaceae , large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. Linden tree is made up of lime-wood.

15. Chestnut Linden E lm Tree Hornbeam Beech

16. Hedges: The clipped hedges are usually box,lavender,rosemary and occasionally santoline.Regular trimmimg to stop them going ‘leggy’ and ‘woody’ is important. Vegetables: Many French Chateax have wonderful vegetable gardens with the vegetables laid out in patterns and parterres in the style of the ornamental formal gardens. Plants and Trees to use in French Formal Design

17. Plants: Bedding plants and bulbs are popular choices for parterres with for example parterres filled with bulbs in formal pattern for spring flowering and then taken out and replaced with bedding plants for the latespring and summer.

18. Colors, Flowers and Trees. B lue , pink, white and mauve. Brighter colors (yellow, red, orange ). The Palace used  jonquil bulbs, cyclamen , and   lily plants. H ornbeam , elm, linden, and beech trees. There were also chestnut  and Acacia trees.

19. Key Features Water is often a key features of F rench garden design and lots of round pools and long rectangles of water will be incorporated,the reflection of the water adding to the symmetry and tranguillity of the scene.Fountains and casedes are also very common features. Close to the house planting is kept low and tends to consist of parterres and which are close to the house can be quite intricately patterned and will tend to become more simple further from the house. Further from the house paths are often edged with trees these are almost always manipulated in some way. Trees are always planted in straight lines adding perspective and reinforcing the symmetry of the garden.

20. Adding Aesthetics… Most French gardens were designed to be looked at from specific places such as terraces or balconies. The overall impression of the French landscaping style is one of harmony one of the power of man over nature, where every tree and every bush is given a chosen location and shape.

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