Talk:Formal garden

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Is the intention here to describe the French formal garden that was introduced at Anet, its parterres developed by the Mollet family, its extensive axes perfected by André Le Nôtre at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles and carried through to the end of the eighteenth century in Continental European royal and aristocratic gardens, and later revived among Beaux-Arts garden designers at the close of the nineteenth century? "Formal garden" would otherwise include the Persian and Moorish gardens, the villa gardens of the Italian Renaissance, and the formally laid out medieval hortus conclusus with its central well. All of which deserve individual articles.

If I were to move this to French formal garden, would anyone care, or even notice? --Wetman 01:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I'd notice; yes, I'd care. The words "formal garden" always bring England to my mind--I think of modern formal gardens, like the one in Central Park before I think of Versailles, for example--Versailles is, well...Versailles.

If you know enough about the history of formal gardens to write articles (or at least intelligent stubs) about the formal gardens of different countries/localites/whatever, I'd be pleased to read them, but you would still need formal garden. Why not just expand (sections) here?

Quill 04:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll stick to more specific aspects of garden history, and take this catch-all off my watchlist, then. --Wetman 06:12, 11 June 2006 (UTC)