List of garden types

A wide range of garden types exists. Below is a list of examples.

By country of origin

The Orangerie in the Gardens of Versailles with the Pièce d’Eau des Suisses in the background (French formal garden)

Stourhead (1741-80) (English garden)

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Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden)

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Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden)

Mughal gardens at Taj Mahal, Agra, India

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Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, India (Mughal Gardens)

The Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, China (created in 1559) shows all the elements of a classical Chinese garden – water, architecture, vegetation, and rocks

Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

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Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium

Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris

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Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore

• Chinese gardens
• Dutch gardens
• English gardens
  • Anglo-Japanese style
  • Landscape garden
• French gardens
  • French formal garden
  • French landscape garden
  • Gardens of the French Renaissance
• Greek gardens
• Italian gardens
  • Italian Renaissance garden
• Japanese gardens
  • Anglo-Japanese style
  • Japanese rock garden
  • Japanese tea gardens
• Korean garden
• Persian gardens
  • Charbagh
• Spanish gardens
  • Andalusian Patio
• United States gardens
  • Colonial Revival garden

By historical empire

• Byzantine gardens
• Mughal gardens
• Persian gardens
• Roman gardens

In religion

• Bahá'í gardens
• Biblical gardens
• Islamic gardens
• Mary gardens
• Sacred gardens

Other

• Aquascaping
• Back garden
• Bagh (garden)
• borrowing of scenery ("shakkei")
• Bosquet
• Botanical gardens
  • Alpinum
  • Arboretum
  • Palmetum
• Bottle garden
• Butterfly gardening
• Cactus garden
• Charbagh
• Color garden
• Community gardens
  • Allotment (gardening)
  • Communal gardens
  • Garden sharing
• Container garden
• Cottage garden
• Energy-efficient landscaping
• Feng shui
• Ferme ornée
• Fernery
• Flower box
• Flower garden
• Forest gardening
• Front garden
• Garden in Transit
• Garden real estate
• Garden square
• Green wall
• Hanging garden (cultivation)
• Herb gardens
• Historic garden restoration
• Hòn Non Bộ
• Hortus conclusus
• Intercultural Garden
• Kitchen garden
• Knot garden
• Mazes
  • Hedge maze
  • Turf maze
• Memorial Garden
• Natural landscaping
• Naturescaping
• Orangery
• Organic horticulture
• Parterre
• Pattern gardening
• Peristyle
• Philosophical garden
• Playscape
• Paradise gardens
• Pleasure gardens
• Public produce
• Rain garden
• Raised bed gardening
• Road verge
• Rock gardens
• Roof gardens
  • Green roof
  • Subtropical climate vegetated roof
• Rose gardens
• Sculpture gardens
  • Sculpture trails
• Sensory garden
• Shade garden
• Shakespeare garden
• Spatial design
• Sustainable gardening
• Tea garden
• Telegarden
• Therapeutic garden
• Terrace gardens
• Trial garden
• Tropical garden
• Tropical horticulture
• Underground farming
• Upside-down gardening
• Urban horticulture
• Victory garden
• Walled garden
• Water garden
• Wildlife garden
• Window box
• Winter garden
• Witches garden
• Xeriscaping
• Yard (land)

See also

• Landscape design

External links

• Historic garden types