Fountain in the Wohl Rose Garden
Majority of traditional European gardens belong either to French or English types. The former is regularly rational, symmetrical, and full of light, while the latter its wild mystic opposition, so full of internal inconsistencies and hidden secrets. Some modern gardens are undergoing a cross-cultural eclecticism, so typical for the age when airtravels have cut off the age-long ethnic and cultural boundaries. IMHO, the Wohl Rose Park is a fine example of the English garden, with the Eastern addition. By Eastern I mean its Far Eastern modifier rather than Central Asian one.
From Moni di Montebianco's ebook "Forced from the Garden" |