Renaissance garden design

Italian Garden Tour 1

Italian garden tour photos from earlier this year.

Being based in Rome for a week we went for a day trip to Tivoli to see Hadrian’s Villa and Villa D’Este. Both these sites are breathtaking in their scale and ambition and rather humbling for a landscape designer in the 21st century. The hydraulic ingenuity restored at Tivoli and inferred from archaeology at Hadrian’s Villa is beyond anything I can imagine being built today.

At Tivoli water behaves in a myriad of ways to create showers, spouts, streams and noises from cannon fire to bird song. The famous ‘Hundred Fountains’ (above left) is rightly considered one of the great achievements in renaissance garden design. What I didn’t realise however is how many other water features (an inadequate phrase for this garden) there are and also the how steep the site is. Through clever use of terracing the garden is essentially one large gravity-powered water feature with path ways and steps linking each part. The overall size of the site is surprisingly small but you could walk for hours with new scenes and vistas opening at every turn. We did.

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Gardens of the Renaissance Book (J. Paul Getty Museum)

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2005-08-10 10:33:37 by chasingfireflies

That's where i got some of my garden tools, etc. to start, anyway. a rake, hoe, shovel, clippers. just scour the free ads regularly. :)
does your backyard get full sun, or close to it, for veggies? (wish mine did! :) )
rhodies, azalea's, euphorbia, and hydrangea are bushes that should do quite well where you are. (i'm in seattle)
clematis, wisteria, passion flower vines might work well for you if you have trellis's, etc.
decide colors you like, and combinations of colors - then you can do a search on "google" for say "pink flowers" or "blue flowers". some plant and seed sellers have websites where you can search by colors, annuals or perennials, etc

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Global Treasures PRAGUE Praha Czech Republic Movie ()

	The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day Book (Thames & Hudson)
	Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy Book (Yale University Press)
	Dolan Designs 825 Renaissance Semi-Flush Ceiling Fixture from the Windsor Collection, Sante Fe Lighting (Dolan Designs) Finish: Sante Fe - Glass: Amber Lamp Type: A19 Medium Base

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