Garden furniture

Garden furniture, also call patio furniture, is a type of furniture specially designed for outdoor use. It is typically made of weather resistant materials. The oldest existing example of garden furniture was found in the gardens of Pompeii.
Garden furniture is frequently sold as a patio set consisting of a table, four or six chairs, and [...]

Egyptian gardens

Gardens were much appreciated in the Egyptian times and were reserved both for secular purposes and attached to temple compounds. Gardens in personal homes and villas before the New Kingdom were mostly used for growing vegetables and located close to a canal or the river.
However, in the New Kingdom they were frequently bounded by walls [...]

Persian gardens

All Persian gardens, from the very old to the high classical were developed in opposition to the harsh and arid landscape of the Iranian Plateau. Not like past European gardens, which seem carved or re-ordered from within their existing landscape, Persian gardens appeared as impossibilities. Their ethereal and weak character emphasized their intrinsic contrast to [...]

Overview of Japanese Garden History

During the Asuka time (538-710), gardens were theoretical to express Buddhism and Taoism through replicating the mountainous regions in China (Japanese Lifestyle). Ruins of these types of gardens are established in Fujiwara and Heijyo castle towns (Japanese Lifestyle).
During the Heian period (794-1185), gardens shift from solely on behalf of religious beliefs to becoming, “a place [...]

Japanese garden

Gardens in conventional Japanese style can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and old castles.
Some of the Japanese gardens most well-known in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui. The custom of the Tea [...]