A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Landscape terms
A small garden located on a roof, gallery, or special stone supports. It has a built-up soil layer for cultivating grasses, flowers, ornamental shrubs, and sometimes trees. Instead of a continuous soil layer, special portable containers fo…
Landscape terms
Plantings of trained or freely growing trees or shrubs (or their combination) intended to produce dense, impenetrable vegetation. They are usually trimmed to form a green wall. Depending on their purpose, hedges can be single-, double- or …
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A four-sided pillar topped with a sculpted head or bust.
Landscape terms
A structure characteristic of the period of development of garden-park and palace art of the 17th–18th centuries, representing an architectural building situated in the depths of a park, away from the palace or the main house of an estate,…
Landscape terms
A memorial grove with statues and "memorial" trees.
Landscape terms
In Ancient Rome, a garden of a characteristic shape in the form of a rectangle rounded on one side.
