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Article: How does your garden grow? Striking designs, low maintenance, balanced proportions, and original landscaping have made Italian gardens famous around the world. (Garden).(Brief Article)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Just as it is difficult to describe the country of Italy without resorting to stereotypes, so it is hard to talk about the Italian garden without describing some of its most easily recognized features: orderly flower beds bordered by boxwood hedges, or evergreens trimmed into spheres and pyramids. Even today, the image of the Italian garden is synonymous with the meticulously designed spaces of the Renaissance garden, a garden whose legacy comes to us from years of planning and philosophizing. These gardens are a direct reflection of the way Renaissance man related to external space. He ordered his environment and decorated it according to an internal concept of harmony ...
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Article: CUMMER CELEBRATES RESTORATION OF ITALIAN GARDEN.
Florida Trend;
July 1, 2000 ;
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... ... Jacksonville. This summer the museum unveils its newly refurbished Italian Garden, meticulously restored in accordance with the original ... from 1927 to 1945, including color and bloom period. The Italian Garden features a vine-covered "Gloriette" (archway), crisscrossed ...
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