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GREEN CARPET [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

Areas of turf, or lawn, provide the green expanse that links all other garden plantings together. They usually consist of grasses--thousands to the square metre--kept shorn close to the ground to provide a green carpet.

OBS

Tapis vert, meaning literally a "green carpet", was first coined in the garden at Versailles in 1680 where André Le Nôtre used a mown grass strip punctuated by urns and statues to divide the main axis, the Allée Royale. This became a template for other grand schemes, including George Washington's plan for the landscaping of independent America's new capital. The term tapis vert has come to embrace a wider meaning, encompassing any area of lawn cut in a regular shape. It is also used to describe areas mown at various heights to produce patterns and it is here that the lawn could enjoy a degree of reinvention, assisted by advances in technology-most mowers can be adjusted by the flick of a lever to give various cutting heights. In areas of a modest size, rotary mowers would be ideal for this purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
DEF

Surface de gazon rectangulaire de grande dimension et sans découpure.

CONT

La période classique introduisit dans les parcs, le tapis vert, pelouse très plate, sobre et peu décorée, généralement en forme de rectangle très allongé, transversalement horizontale mais acceptant très bien une pente longitudinale. On en garnissait le centre des perspectives monumentales. Le tapis vert de Versailles est un modèle du genre.

CONT

Le gazon [...] Les soins d'entretien : tonte, roulage et arrosage doivent être répétés le plus souvent possible, afin d'obtenir un tapis souple et résistant.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

A green carpet of garden runs from the main gateway to the foot of the Taj. In essence, it is a Persian garden, a from born and nursed to maturity in the desert flat of Persia. Such gardens were introduced to India by Baber, the first mughal emperor, who also brought with him the Persian infatuation with flowers and fruit, birds and leaves, symmetry and delicacy. Unlike other Oriental gardens-especially those of the Japanese, who learned to accentuate existing resources rather than formalise them-the Persian garden was artificially contrived, unbashedly man-made, based on geometric arrangements of nature without any attempt at a "natural" look.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

[...] à l'époque sassanide, le jardin perse est divisé en quatre cantons, par deux axes rectangulaires que souligne, soit une allée, soit, plus fréquemment, une ligne d'eau. A l'intersection des deux axes s'élève tantôt le palais, tantôt un pavillon, et tantôt s'étend une fontaine aux motifs parfois très complexes.

Key term(s)
  • jardin persan

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

Areas of turf, or lawn, provide the green expanse that links all other garden plantings together. They usually consist of grasses... kept shorn close to the ground to provide a green carpet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Les parterres gazonnés représentent, incontestablement, à eux seuls la plus grande partie des surfaces vertes.

CONT

Le gazon est un mélange de plantes herbacées (...) Le choix des plantes entrant dans ce mélange permet de composer des surfaces vertes adaptées à différents sols, différents climats (...) De ce dernier point de vue, on peut considérer trois formules : la prairie, la pelouse rustique, la pelouse soignée.

Spanish

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