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Shakespeare garden

May 16, 2010 by admin  
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A Shakespeare garden is themed gardens that cultivate plants mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. In English-speaking countries, mainly the United States, these are frequently public gardens associated with parks, universities, and Shakespeare festivals. Shakespeare gardens are sites of educational, learning, and romantic interest and can be locations for outdoor weddings.
Signs near the plants [...]

Home gardens

May 16, 2010 by admin  
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Home gardens, also recognized as forest gardens, are found in humid areas. They use inter-cropping to farm trees, crops, and livestock on the same land. Kerala in northeastern India, they are the most common form of land use; they are also found in Indonesia, One example combines coconut, black pepper, cocoa and pineapple.
In many African [...]

Design

May 16, 2010 by admin  
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While the traditional cottage garden is built around a cottage, many cottage-style gardens are created around houses and even estates such as Hidcote Manor, with its more intimate “garden rooms”.
The cottage garden plan is base more on main beliefs than formulae: it has an informal look, with a seemingly casual mixture of flowers, herbs, and [...]

Cottage garden Evolution

May 16, 2010 by admin  
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The “naturalness” of casual design began to be notice and developed by the British leisured class. Alexander Pope was an early promoter of less formal gardens, calling in a 1713 article for gardens with the “amiable simplicity of unadorned nature”. Other writers in the 18th century who positive less formal and more usual gardens included, [...]

Cottage garden History

May 16, 2010 by admin  
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Cottage gardens, which emerge in Elizabethan times, come into view to have originated as a local source for herbs and fruits. One history is that they arose out of the Black Death of the 1340s, when the death of so many laborers made land available for small cottages with personal gardens.
According to the late nineteenth-century [...]