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The airy complex body part of these trees in the Tuileries in Paris will be blot out in bounce when they thumb out . The height of tree in the Tuileries is controlled to assert vistas and views . pic : Susan CohanSEE MORE photo OF THIS GARDEN .
For more than 400 year , the French have been enjoying formal gardens and parks that are the antithesis of today ’s current tendency towards realistic ‘ prairie ’ style planting . In the summertime , these gardens may miss the plush , colorful qualities of herbaceous driven garden design , but in wintertime , when their structure deal its asterisk part , they are sculptural , airy and beautiful . They are celebrations of a manmade style of garden that does n’t pretend to be anything but just that . There is no attempt at recreating or mimicking nature in these outdoor spaces .
These formal spaces have clean lines and thoughtfully arranged elements that give them a timeless lineament . evergreen plant hedging and geometrical planting dodging define areas and unmediated views . Hedging can be elaborate or simple . Careful , skilled maintenance and forbearance is require to create and care for these gardens which excuse one reason why they ’ve fall out of favour with so many . It takes a very prospicient horizon and highly skilled pruning for a garden like this to extend to maturity . There are those who believe that this eccentric of horticulture is unsustainable , yet they ’ve thrived and are have been used daily for more one C . Perennial and grass based gardens can look good in a season or two and become our short attention duad . There are fewer opportunity in this type of garden to change row or fix a mistake . Their relative easiness indicate every contingent , safe and bad .
In the Jardin du Palais Royal just behind the Louvre , Tree produce shaded amble with sliver of view above and beyond . photograph : Susan CohanSEE MORE PHOTOS OF THIS GARDEN .
Pleached and poll trees occupy the erect and overhead planes . For those who view this hokey practice as unnecessary and passe , there are confident reasons to pollard . pollard Tree live longer than those that remain unpruned . It can multiply the range of niches that increase value to wildlife for both feeding and nesting . Places with in high spirits concentrations of old pollards have been found to have the highest tier of biodiversity in Europe . In the parks in Paris , trees are protected and give every opportunity to flourish . Topiaried shrubs , Tree and other major plants have their roots protect by simple yet effective barrier . Trunks are wrapped and softly staked to protect from winter winds and dry out . Older Tree are crutched and supported to extend their lives whenever potential . Hand pruning is practiced and parks have visible compost areas - something that would be hidden in American parks .
Public gardens and parks in Paris are n’t static historical web site . In 2004 , Belgian landscape fashion designer , Jacques Wirtz discharge a large hedged plus to the Tuileries which have been developed for centuries . Even , Andre le Notre , whose 400th birthday is this yr , added his estimate to what was then an extension of the king ’s garden . He extended the Tuilerie ’s westerly vista into what would become today ’s Champs Élyssées .
Jacques Wirtz induction of architecturally pruned hedging at the Tuileries in Paris . Photo : Susan CohanSEE MORE picture OF THIS GARDEN .
Like any other garden , these park are survive , breathing , and highly used outside seat that are , like any other added to and take off from . Used as parks , they are still call garden , because that ’s what they were in the first place . Each one has wide walks and narrow side trails , gather places , playground , pleasure gardens with fountains and carving of all varieties . There are new and old plantings , container and annual display . There are post to sit in the tint or bask in the Dominicus . There are position for intimate conversation and open distance for sports . Above all these are position for hoi polloi to bask themselves and admire something beautiful every day on a grand and intelligibly manmade musical scale .
