garden and landscape design: Quick Facts

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Palace of Versailles: gardens

The California Academy of Sciences building with a green roof covered in plants and several rounded mounds, surrounded by landscaped gardens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Gardens of Campos do Jordão, Brazil.

Japanese contemplative garden

Structural pools in the gardens of the Generalife at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

Sloped earth, trees, and colourful ground cover in Bluebell Wood, Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey, England.

Kinkaku Temple, Kyōto, Japan

Singapore Botanic Gardens: gazebo

A pre-Civil War stone house in Manassas National Battlefield Park, near Manassas, Virginia, U.S.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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Key People

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Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Le Blond

French landscape designer