Ornamental Horticulture

French garden

During the sixteenth-century, in France the court life was shrouded with stiff formality and exactness. To match with this formality, the French style of garden designs were also very intricate and artificial. Due to the efforts of Le Notre who served in the Royal Garden of Louis XIV from 1643 to 1700, the art of garden design was elevated to a higher. It was Le Notre who showed to the world the impact in impressiveness of scale on garden design. His main creations, the gardens at Versailles, have avenues which are memorable for their tremendous length and width. To design a garden at Vauxe-le-Vicomte, his first master piece, Le Notre had removed three villages to create his vista. The moral of French garden style of Le Notre seems to teach the lesson “how to think big”. The style of Le Notre can be termed as an evolution and mastery of the art of formal garden in its perfection. His style dominated the gardens of civilized Europe, for a long time.