Moorish garden - a fashionable direction of landscape design

Until recently, the private plot was just a place for growing bushes and trees, and there was no talk of any landscape design. Now the garden near the house is no longer just a place where you can lie in a hammock under an apple tree, this is a stylistic extension of the house, a peculiar face of the owner. One of the most fashionable areas of landscape design today is the Moorish garden. The distinctive features of the Moorish garden will be discussed in our article.

What is a Moorish garden?

Moorish gardens lead their history from ennobled oases - symbols of hope, life and coolness in the desert. That is why the main features of the Moorish style in landscape design are the abundance of greenery, bright colors and life-giving water. It can also be said that the Moorish garden is a small piece of the Islamic paradise on Earth. Moorish garden is often called also Mediterranean. This is partly true, because the Moorish gardens gained immense popularity after the Arabs came to the Spanish coast, bringing with them the Islamic traditions of arrangement of gardens. In our latitudes the arrangement of gardens in the Moorish style has become the most fashionable direction of landscape design is not accidental. First, for the Moorish garden does not need large areas, it will look very harmonious even in small areas. Secondly, plants in such a garden are allowed to grow naturally, without necessarily pruning and cutting to shape. Thirdly, the Moorish garden is very bright, colorful and unusual, just drowning in greenery and flowers. It is not necessary to fill the garden with rare exotic plants, to achieve the luxury of a Moorish garden quite possibly combining plants that are characteristic of our climate.

Features of the Moorish garden

1. The heart of any Moorish garden is water: a small pond, a pool or a fountain with a weak pressure. In the arrangement of the reservoir it is necessary to take into account two indispensable conditions: first, it must be visible from any part of the garden, and secondly, four paths or brook-channels must symmetrically depart from it.
2. At the forefront of the planning of any Moorish garden is a strict geometry. The canals that depart from the pond divide the garden into four equal parts of regular shape, and if the garden area is large, these parts, in turn, are divided into four equal parts.
3. In the Moorish garden there is no place usual for most lawns. Most of the garden is covered with paved or tiled paths. The pattern of paving is made as close as possible to the patterns of oriental carpets. If a part of the garden is allotted to the lawn, but it must also be made in the Moorish style - with a huge number of poppies, small chamomiles, pyrethrum, crocuses, cornflowers, tulips, primroses. Plants should be selected in such a way that the lawn is happy with its flowering throughout the season.
4. A special place in the Moorish garden is assigned to the rose garden , which is most often located next to the pond. When choosing a variety of roses for the Moorish garden, their fragrance plays an important role.
5. To design the transitions from different parts of the garden, various arches or gratings are used, drowning in the greenery of the weaving plants.
6. The luxurious sofa and the color of the Moorish garden will be enhanced by a sofa in the garden decorated with bright pillows.
7. The Moorish garden will be especially effective in conjunction with the house, which is decorated in light colors, and the walls have a rough structure. Against this background, weaving flowering plants will look especially advantageous.