DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MUGHAL G.

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TYPE OF GARDEN Formal garden
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Bold repetition and breadth of treatment lend,
as we have seen, a wonderful fascination, a
grand, serene, and peaceful dignity to Indian
garden-craft. The Mughals with their Tartar
traditions were great tomb-builders as well as
gardeners.
GEOMETRY AXIAL GEOMETRY One of the key features of a
Mughal garden is its highly structural geometry.
Respecting the axis is cardinal rule for
implementing a Charbagh geometry. The word
literally translates to four gardens.
FRENCH GARDENS
Formal garden
French gardens usually incorporate a cool color
palette that emphasizes greens and whites—
think boxwood and stone gravel pathways. Rows
of lavender bring in purple and reflecting pools
the cool blues. Because ornamental flowers were
rare in France in the 17th century, the color
palette was limited.
A geometric plan is used and symmetry 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.
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PLANTING SCHEME Fruit trees, flowering plants, shrubs and colourful Trees are planted in straight lines and clipped
annulas were planted in the garden to give a to keep a perfect shape and size. The clipped
new life to it. Fragrant flowers were the main hedges are usually box, lavender, rosemary and
attraction of the garden. In Kashmir, the Mughals occasionally santoline. Bedding plants and bulbs
planted chenar, white poplar, cypress, apple, are popular choices for parterres with for
peach, plum, sour or sweet cherries, quince, example, parterres filled with bulbs in formal
pomegranate and fig. in the plains. patterns for spring flowering and then taken out
and replaced with bedding plants for the late-
spring and summer.
ELEMENTS The main elements of Mughal gardens include Concrete balustrade
running water and a pool to reflect the beauties Cast iron seating
of the sky and the garden, different varieties of Fountains
trees- to provide shade, to bear colorful and Pea gravel
fragrant fruits or flowers; grass; birds to fill the Cast iron/wood planters
gardens with song and the whole cooled by a Simple elegant furniture
pleasant breeze. Natural stone
Glazed pots
Antiques
Columns
Trellises
Birdbaths
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CLIMATE In India, however, the concept of Mughal
gardens had an influence of Persian and Turkish
style. The Mughal's invasion remarkably
influenced the style of Gardens in India. In this
connection gardens have been found as
providers of shades in hot climate and
humidifiers of air through evapo-transpiration.
EXAMPLE Ram Bagh, Agra
Shalimar Gardens, Kashmir
FRENCH GARDENS
Low winter temperatures are a common trap for new
gardeners in France. Tricked by the hot summers, we
plant tender, frost¬-prone plants. However, even in
relatively southerly areas of France, the frosts can be
hard; in some winters down to –12°C.
Gardens of the Tuileries Palace (1664)
Grand Canal of Gardens of Versailles (1668–1669)
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