parterre gardening
1Parterre — A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern. Parterres need not have any flowers… …
2parterre — parterred, adj. /pahr tair /, n. 1. Also called parquet circle. the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house. 2. an ornamental arrangement of flower beds of… …
3gardening — /gahrd ning/, n. 1. the act of cultivating or tending a garden. 2. the work or art of a gardener. [1570 80; GARDEN + ING1] * * * Laying out and tending of a garden. Though palatial gardens existed in ancient times, small home gardens became… …
4Parterre — Jardines del Midi, parterre de Versalles. En el lado izquierdo de la imagen un …
5History of gardening — See also: Category:Landscape design history The history of ornamental gardening may be considered as aesthetic expressions of beauty through art and nature, a display of taste or style in civilized life, an expression of an individual s or… …
6List of gardening topics — This is a list of gardening topics:* Allotment * Arboretum * Bonsai * Botanical gardens * Chelsea Flower Show * Community garden * Companion planting * Compost * Flowerbed * Fountains * Gardener * List of gardens in fiction * Garden tool * Garden …
7Dezallier d'Argenville — The family of Dezallier d Argenville produced two writers and connoisseurs in the course of the 18th century. Dezallier d Argenville …
8Formal garden — A formal garden in the Western gardening tradition [In Japanese gardening, the Zen garden of rocks, moss and raked gravel is a wholly separate concept of equally formal garden, without axial symmetry or other geometries.] is a neat and ordered… …
9Jacques Boyceau — Jacques Boyceau, sieur de la Barauderie [According to the inscription on his portrait engraved by Gregoire Huret [http://search.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?record=45958 =list =1 = =And] , not Baraudière as is sometimes reported.] (ca 1560… …
10environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
