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Garden design is the process of creating plans for the layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Gardens may be designed by garden owners themselves, or by professionals. Professional garden designers tend to be trained in principles of design and horticulture, and have a knowledge and experience of using plants.
Niwaki trees at Ritsurin Garden. Niwaki (庭木) is the Japanese word for "garden trees". Niwaki is also a descriptive word for highly "sculpting trees". [1] Most varieties of plants used in Japanese gardens are called niwaki. These trees help to create the structure of the garden.
A medieval Italian word for designing textiles with interweaving threads or ribbons – ‘innodature’ – was adopted for similar designs in garden beds. [107] The English equivalent ‘knot’ had a broader meaning as any form of intricate work, not necessarily involving crossing or interlacing designs. [ 108 ]
A subdivision backyard (American English). A yard is an area of land immediately adjacent to one or more buildings.It may be either enclosed or open. [1] The word may come from the same linguistic root as the word garden and has many of the same meanings.
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Under the Abbasid dynasty (8th century AD), this type of garden became an integral part of representational architecture. The Persian garden is a landscape garden, designed individually and created intentionally as a space embedded in the aesthetic and spiritual context of its past and contemporary cultural, political, and social environment.
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The Arabic word for paradise or garden in the Qur'an is Jannah which literally means "concealed place". Two watercourses are supposed to flow underneath the jannah where large trees are described, mountains made of musk , between which rivers flow in valleys of pearl and ruby . [ 30 ]