Monumental Gardens

Buckminster fuller was working in the early 20th century, his Dymaxion world was cool.

Ha Has were built around grand country houses, to keep sheep and other livestock out of gardens.

Parco dei Mostri is a 19th century garden located at Bomarzo in a province north of Lazio, Italy.

Roman Forum is a marketplace that was built around the 3rd and 4th century. The marketplace is surrounded by several ruined government buildings.

Boboli Gardens is a park located in Florence,Italy. The collection of sculptures could be dated back to the 16th to 18th century.

Jardin du Petit Luxembourg is a garden located in Italy that was built back in the early 1600's by Marie de' Medici

Villa d'Este is a 16th century villa resides in Tivoli, Rome, famous for its hillside renaissance gardens.

Fontan dei quattro Fiumi or The fountain of Four Rivers is located in the Piazza Navona in Rome,Italy. The Design was made in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The Jardin D'email was made by Jean Dubuffet in 1974, This creation was made for the sculpture garden of Kroller-Muller Museum located in Otterlo, Netherlands.

The Stowe Landscape Gardens is located in Buckinghamshire,England, it began in the late 17th century and continued to change landscaping styles until the 19th century.

Stourhead is a hectare estate lying at the beginning of the river Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. The garden was designed by Henry Hoare II, but was laid out between 1741 and 1780.

Potomac Park was built between 1888 to 1912 near Washington DC. One of the main attractions of the park are the sakura trees.

Viscaya Miami

The viscaya villa was built between 1914 to 1922,  The museum is formerly James Deering's estate. Being conservative with the land, the estate and the elaborate garden  was built along the shore . The inspiration for the garden was based on Deering's trip to Italy. 

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden is a  botanical garden, located south of Coral Gables, Florida, the garden was established in 1936 by Robert H. Montgomery. The garden was officailly opened to the public in 1938 and was named after his good friend David Fairchild. 

Green Dreams Response

The garden is described by Robert Harbison to be built on the idea of contrast, originating as "a attempt to recapture something, but the form it finds for the act is that of a mental picture". The two forces go against each other with in the garden transforming it. Moving between the man made appearance and the natural, the eventual evolution is what is prized.

The most interesting garden i read about was the Stowe. The way Greek temples were thoughtfully placed for the viewer to have a mental road map.I liked how the scattered temples around the area open the viewers visual intake as well, like the Congreve monument was a little island that lured you to examine the terrain. The Grecian Valley is a rolling farm field built in the area closed off at the top with a Greek temple. It was nice to see the natural movement of a gardens evolution.