Bosquet

Bosket ( neuter the shrubbery, plural also Bosketten / the boskets from French le bosquet " wood ", " wood " or " jungle ") is a form of a special, elaborately designed gardens. Boskets part of the schematic structure of almost all Baroque gardens.

A shrubbery is a "pleasure grove " within a geometrically designed Baroque castle gardens, mostly in connection to the so-called ground floor, the trees crossed by " straight " axes and flanked by high hedges. A shrubbery is accordingly a counterpoint to the building's architecture form, as the " architecture of the Greens " may also include corridors, stairways, cabinets and rooms. The boskets were used as the interiors and served as a venue for concerts, plays and other amusements.

Examples of boskets are the colonnade or the maze in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.

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