Garden Design

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Dame Sylvia "Gardens are the link between men and the world in which they live…A garden can give two separate the pleasure of the growing plant with its individual beauty, and the pleasure of the garden as a whole, as a world to live in and to look at…Even without knowing why, we are aware of the immense peace of certain gardens, while others give a sense of exhilaration, which draws one to explore…Blind copying of another garden never succeeds, because gardens are a personal expression of desire made in response to a unique set of circumstances"… With these thoughts in mind, Dame Sylvia briefly describes the qualities of the Mogul, Hispano-Arabic, Sino-Japanese, Italian, French, English and other contemporary gardens, teasing out the principles of design and qualities we can absorb, and which she then provides greater detail.