Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Cluster plantings

Ландшафтные термины

A landscaping technique that involves planting several seedlings in a single planting hole. A cluster group can also be formed by planting on the stump of a young tree to create conditions for the development of lateral shoots.

Cluster plantings

Ландшафтные термины

Groups of 3–5 trees planted 0.5–1 m apart from each other, forming a common crown of large diameter (a "bouquet" type).

Cabinet

Ландшафтные термины

An element of the internal spatial composition of a bosquet in garden and park design, formed by clipped walls of linden or hornbeam. In French gardens and parks of the 17th–18th centuries most cabinets were decorated with parterres, pools…

Cartouche

Ландшафтные термины

An ornament in the garden parterre of the 17th–18th centuries, shaped like a partially unfurled scroll with curls. A cypher (monogram), the owner's emblem, was placed in the center of the cartouche.

Cascade

Ландшафтные термины

A special multi-tiered structure of stone or concrete used for the descent of streams of water at sites of rapid flow in natural rivers and brooks, as well as along artificial watercourses composed of a successive series of small terraces.…

Cachepot

Ландшафтные термины

A decorative object made of ceramics, plastic, wood, or wicker for placement indoors and outdoors.

Classicism

Ландшафтные термины

An artistic style of the 18th to the early 19th century that looks to antiquity and ancient art as the norm and ideal model. In Russian park design it is identified with the landscape (picturesque) style of layout, a rejection of regular/f…

Compartment

Ландшафтные термины

A separate garden-and-park composition in the gardens and parks of the 17th–18th centuries, parts of which formed the entire ensemble: for example, a parterre compartment consisting of identical flower carpets symmetrically arranged around…

Court of honor

Ландшафтные термины

A ceremonial forecourt of a palace, villa, or castle laid out as a garden; on the street side it is enclosed by an openwork fence, and on the remaining sides by the wings or ranges of a U-shaped building.

Curtain

Ландшафтные термины

1) a separate area of a forest, botanical garden, or arboretum; 2) a large group of 20–90 or more specimens of trees and shrubs of a single species; 3) a flower bed edged with turf.

Continuous flowering garden

Ландшафтные термины

A specially designated area in a park or botanical garden where plants are arranged — herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and trees — selected according to their flowering times throughout the year.

Chinampa garden

Ландшафтные термины

A Mexican floating garden: a small islet made of branches and reeds, on which soil was piled and various plants were grown.

Chaos

Ландшафтные термины

A disorderly accumulation of wild rocks and large stone boulders. In Romantic parks of the 18th–19th centuries it symbolized the abyss, the primordial state of the material world from which all that exists arose (for example, the Great and…