Ancient Roman Garden Design

Ancient roman landscaping is different from ancient greek.

Ancient roman garden design. The gardens of lucullus on the pincian hill in rome introduced the persian garden to europe around 60 bc. It is also called as english landscape park. It was seen as a place of peace and tranquillity a refuge from urban life and a place filled with religious and symbolic meaning.

The continued influence of roman gardens is traced though arabic medieval and renaissance gardens to the present day. Large or small they were sources of vegetables herbs and fruit for the household. Whilst i m not on a garden tour of rome i may spot a few examples of italian topiary as this style of gardening became popular again during the italian renaissance.

Roman gardens were either large estates in the countryside villa urbanae which evolved from villa rusticae on the outskirts of cities villa suburbanae or the hortus a relatively small enclosed courtyard gardens set within their urban town houses. Water was prized in all styles of roman gardens by the ancient romans who were the aqueduct builders of the old world. This book describes the variety of roman gardens throughout the empire from the humblest to the most lavish including such well known places as hadrian s villa in tivoli and the gardens of pompeii and herculaneum.

Roman gardens began as practical features. Continuing our walk through garden time today its the romans. The landscaping of ancient rome was developed on the basis of the traditions of ancient greece.

Using the achievements of egyptian and greek culture romans created their park culture which until now is considered one of the richest in the ancient worlds history. Roman gardens and ornamental horticulture became highly developed under roman civilization. The roman was a very civilised civilisation and the garden was no exception.

Although possibly not the name of the garden owner and their gardener. Topiary became the predominant pruning style showcased in containers featuring standard evergreens and shaped boxwoods. Roman garden is a landscape garden design which was introduced in england in the beginning of 18th century.