Knot garden

The knot garden came as an element of Italian gardens of the Renaissance. Node ornaments, straw and checkerboard patterns were typical of the beds. The patterns resemble planted garden labyrinths with low mounts. Mazes, however, are classified as a separate element of garden design. Knot gardens are now mainly in the UK.

History

Penelope Hobhouse wants to lead knot patterns on embroidery patterns, there is no evidence to. Ornamental planting patterns are found in the 16th century Sebastiano Serlio in Vredeman and Hans de Vries. Traditionally it has been combined in the book node beds with medicinal and herbal plants, for example, Holy herb germander and winter savory. However, this type of planting more end of the 16th century, more and more the book ground floor.

In England, especially herbs have been used as a frame from 1500, for example, hyssop, rosemary, thyme and thrifts. Dwarf book was only introduced in 1595, Holy herb is indeed already taken from a book of plants from the time of Elizabeth I, but was still rare.

Knot pattern can be found in the allegorical novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili from around 1499, the Francesco Colonna is attributed. The woodcuts of the first edition illustrated different types of pruning and topiary and Beetornamentierungen in high artistic quality. Pattern can also be found in the " La Maison Rustique " by Estienne Liébault that would 1616 project from Gervase Markham as "The Countrie Farm" into English, as well as Stephen Blake ( The compleat gardeners practice, directing the exact way of gardening in three parts: the garden of pleasure, physical garden, kitchin garden: how They are to be ordered for their best situation and improvement, with variety of artificial knots, London, Thomas Pierrepoint 1664).

In England, Rosemary Verey tried in the 1980s to make knot gardens as part of the " English classical revival style" popular.

Execution

A distinction is made between open and closed node beds. Closed nodes form a continuous "thread", with open nodes individual sections are separated with a surrounding low hedge. The open Knotenbeet was filled with dead material such as colored pebbles, the closed flowers. Node beds were often under the windows of a mansion, as they are best admired from above.

Examples

Historic gardens node

  • Heidelberg Castle Garden

Nachgestaltete knot gardens

  • Garden Museum, Lambeth Cathedral, Lambeth, London
  • Helmingham Hall, Sussex
  • Dower House, Morville, Shropshire. Nachgestalteter Elizabethan knot garden
  • Tudor Garden, University of Southampton
  • Knot garden of the castle and Benedictine Iburg, Lower Saxony, in 2013 reconstructed.
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