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GARDEN PLAN [6 records]

Record 1 2022-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Horticulture
DEF

A person employed to tend, cultivate, or lay out a garden.

CONT

Gardeners with experience should cope with all the tasks needed to keep a garden under control – including weeding, grass cutting, strimming, pruning, planting, mulching, feeding, spraying and lawn care – and know when to do them. A top-notch gardener will be able to help you plan your garden, suggest and source plants and even mentor you, if you want to learn more. You shouldn’t expect a gardener to do the jobs that a landscaper would do, such as lay a patio, build a wall or put up a garden building.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Horticulture

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Producción vegetal
  • Horticultura
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Record 2 2017-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

As we start our planning we should keep a few basic design principles in mind. We will, through careful planning, want to improve on the good, bad, and the ugly, logically to create a wonderful garden area. Most professional designers, after years of practice, will apply these principles automatically. The following is a list of a few basics. Unity : This is probably the most important area for the overall plan. A good plan will have unity in all things. This is where we look for all parts to interrelate with each other and also relate to the overall plan.

CONT

Unity is the harmony of all elements of the total design and clearly illustrates the skill of a designer as a landscape artist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Une œuvre d'art doit être «un tout» [...] L'unité fait acquérir à l'œuvre cette qualité d'être UNE. [...] Il faut pour respecter cette loi d'unité : que chaque élément soit solidaire des autres; qu'il occupe une place qui ne pourrait être celle d'un autre élément de surface, de volume ou de couleur différente; qu'il y ait subordination des éléments les uns par rapport aux autres; que tous soient subordonnés à un élément principal appelé dominante ou tête de composition.

Spanish

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Record 3 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 4 2003-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Planning
  • Urban Development
CONT

The project at Vreewijk... was always intended as the urban expression of Ebenezer Howard's essentially anti-urban ideology of the garden city and was intended from the first to be an extension of Rotterdam. In the first phase, based on the street plan(1913) by H. P. Berlage, Granpré Molière developed a housing typology based on the relationship between urbanism, architecture and planning. This resulted in the second phase of Vreewijk, the extension plan(1920) by Granpré Molière, Verhagen & Kok commissioned by the Eerste Rotterdamsche Tuindorp NV. A private initiative, it was nevertheless based on the belief that urbanism has not only to do with planning but also with expressing contemporary cultural and artistic ambitions, and that therefore it cannot be the result of a single person's intentions nor those of isolated parts of society, be they the state or private initiatives.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement urbain
  • Développement urbain
CONT

À partir de 1918 la municipalité lance un plan d'aménagement et d'embellissement de Nantes. Il est nécessaire de construire des logements qui font de plus en plus défaut mais il faut faire de Nantes une ville agréable avec des avenues larges, propres, coquettes et animées. Ainsi de nouveaux quartiers vont surgir qui contrasteront avec les anciens. De plan d'embellissement on passe au plan d'extension qui concerne un espace de 9240 hectares alors que la zone urbaine en 1920 n'est que de 2800 hectares. Un programme de grands travaux démarre jusqu'en 1941.

CONT

Suivant cette loi [Loi Cornudet qui constitua la première Charte de l'Urbanisme], toutes les villes de plus de 10,000 habitants [...] sont tenues d'avoir un plan d'aménagement, d'embellissement et d'extension.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematical Geography
  • Site Development
  • Landscape Architecture
DEF

A prominent or conspicuous topographic form or noticeable part thereof.

CONT

... the basic elements of a home-garden plan... can help in creating a... garden scheme that will provide seasonal development of a planting in relation to the house and other existing features of more of less permanent nature, such as large trees and topographical features.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie mathématique
  • Aménagement du terrain
  • Architecture paysagère
DEF

Inégalité du relief, élévation du sol amenant de la variété dans un paysage uniforme.

CONT

Appareil de visée définissant le plan dans lequel les tuyaux de drainage doivent être posés et provoquant le réglage automatique de la profondeur du travail de la sous-soleuse, quels que soient les accidents de terrain en surface.

CONT

Établissement des gazons. [...] Tous les accidents de relief, légers creux ou petites bosses, ayant fait place à une surface calme, le terrain se trouve prêt à recevoir les graines.

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

The more or less permanent plants considered in the garden plan are the lawn and turf areas, ground covers, shrubs and vines, and trees.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

L'importance et l'utilité des allées sont telles que beaucoup de professionnels voient dans leur tracé l'essentiel du plan de jardin et ne conçoivent rien de l'organisation d'ensemble tant qu'elles ne sont pas définitivement dessinées.

CONT

Avant de commencer le plan du futur jardin, un inventaire des végétaux existants devra être fait et reporté sur un plan avec l'emplacement de la maison.

Spanish

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