Architecture & Decoration

You want to give your garden a touch of class and at the same time create a place of peace and tranquility that it becomes your refuge? We advise you to opt for the installation of a fine pond that becomes one with nature.

If you are wondering how to proceed in this way, surely you will find ideas interested in 40 proposed to follow depicting photos of beautiful garden ponds immortalized in various parts of the world.

Treat the external decoration andarchitecture of the garden not only completely transforms the aesthetics of a dwelling but allows you to fully enjoy the wide breath of nature for the benefit of a lifetime of relaxation. The garden ponds are the real meeting point between design and created, you can choose what you want and you are in the planning stage.

Depending on the environment and the space available you can opt for the creation of a pond surrounded by green areas, from special rocks, accompanied by small waterfalls or fountains with special jets. A pond is naturally able to sustain life and, depending on your preference, you can choose to populate it with Goldfish and turtles; If you instead choose to host estimators of Japanese culture with traditional koi carp, namely the beautiful specimens bred specifically for decorative purposes and symbol of love and friendship.

Let's go now to enjoy the photos of 40 ponds garden, we're sure, will charm you thanks to the refinement of their refined and elegant architectural style.

The national competition the most beautiful in Italy Park, now in its fourteenth edition, presents the ten finalists selected for 2016. During the summer there will be the verdict with the winner. Meanwhile, let's enjoy the beauty of these parks, ideal destinations for a weekend away.

In recent weeks, the scientific committee of the Most Beautiful Park met to decide the " Top Ten" of the Italian scenery in 2016 , and by next summer, including these ten finalists, the two winners will be chosen, respectively, for the category Public Parks and for Parks Private category. This year the choice was difficult. The selected parks, scattered throughout the peninsula , are all spectacularbut each one different: some formal with precise geometries, the most romantic other with soft, sinuous paths, some with exceptional botanical collections or breathtaking panoramic views. 

Waiting to know who will win, the garden lovers can visit with trips a day to the nearby parks, up to realholidays "green" for those more distant , to discover the most beautiful cultural treasures, botanical, natural and architectural.

In Piedmont, the hills of Turin, here is Villa della Regina with its structure typically seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Once you walked the driveway in front of you has the so-called "big rondeau", a double staircase with central fountain of 20 m in diameter. Behind the palace stretches a vast semicircle on three levels. The water that feeds from top to bottom the circuit of ponds and fountains is drawn from various natural springs in the surrounding hills. A culmination of the garden there is a large forest.

Remaining in Piedmont, we meet in Trivero (Biella) Zegna Oasis, a vast mountain area of ​​about 100 square km where, between mid May and late June, you can enjoy the wonderful blooms of rhododendrons, planted from years 40s by Ermenegildo Zegna. A stop not to be missed, in fact, is the stunning Conca rhododendron, crossed by an easy path, renovated by the landscape Florentine Pietro Porcinai and expanded in recent years by Paul Pejrone.

In Lombardy, Lainate (MI) is Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta, a late sixteenth-century garden, updated in the eighteenth and articulated nymph, richly decorated with mosaics, stucco, paintings and water features: a unique masterpiece of its gender. Since 1971, the villa is owned by the City of Lainate who promoted several restoration projects, including the redevelopment of the nineteenth century the orchid greenhouses, just inaugurated.

Overlooking Lake Como, Bellagio, is the Villa Melzi with its charming early nineteenth century landscape garden which worked the architect Luigi Canonica and the agronomist Luigi Villoresi. You breathe a charming romantic atmosphere, with its vegetation of secular and exotic plants, groups of giant rhododendrons and azaleas spread on lawns and along the slopes, the idyllic lake surrounded by Japanese maples that for value and variety, are a unique in the lake Como area.

In Veneto, here is Villa Pisani Bolognesi Scalabrin in Vescovana (Padua) with its formal gardens, designed to be looked at from above: a geometric system fan out of box beds with bulbs and flowers embellished with splendid sculptures. It is an extraordinary achievement desired by a woman, Evelina van Millinghen (who married in 1852 a Pisani), in which the taste of the Victorian joins the tradition of the Italian garden, in a harmonious synthesis between an architectural and the naturalness of the surrounding park.

In Castelfranco Emilia (Modena), we meet Villa Sorra: the most significant example of nineteenth Este, the most romantic garden of informal gardens in Emilia Romagna, with its characteristic canals, the alternation of areas with lawns and shrubbery , bodies of water, the winding paths and false ruins.

We move to Tuscany, Santomato (Pistoia) for Villa Celle, an outstanding example of nineteenth-century romantic park that covers about 30 hectares, the collector Giuliano Gori has turned, since 1970, in an open air museum. Inspired by the presence of some buildings (the aviary, the building of the tea, the Egyptian monument), its formula provides that each artist invited to choose a space and build its intervention specifically for the place at its disposal. The result is a collection of works that do not "occupy" the space but become part of the landscape.

Photo by Emanuele Zallocco

In the Marche we find the Garden Buonaccorsi, in Potenza Picena (Macerata), a precious gem set among the hills. Built between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, it arranged on a series of terraces with exceptional sculptural ornaments, flower beds with various designs, caves, a theater of automata with hydraulic and mechanical games. In addition to the formal garden terrace, there is a large forest with many trees, an artificial lake and a mound. 

We reach Naples where, on the hill of Vomero, there Floridiana, a complex formed by a large park and a villa that houses the National Museum of Ceramics Martina. The park, with the original outdoor theater, offers a magnificent panorama of the Bay of Naples and is home to over 150 plant species: a real green lung in the heart of the busy district, a great place for a Sunday stroll or for play children, but also a cultural destination for tourists and locals.

Whether already in the early afternoon, or just in the garden party evening hours - on the extraordinary event is. As the celebrations in the open are something special and offers a variety of beach party round birthday until the summer festival in vintage style. But what is peace for a beautiful garden to a successful garden party?

Finding inspiration benthic benthic usually motto help on most occasions. At a garden party, this is not strictly necessary, since the special atmosphere provides enough inspiration for the food, the drinks, as well as the decoration. A light fresh meal with plenty of vegetables is literally, when is celebrated in the garden. This grilled meat and fish. Another idea can be a buffet of finger food, which offers the advantage of have to eat the guests without cutlery and covers therefore not necessarily at a table to sit. Instead you can enjoy to chairs or chairs and relaxed atmosphere with Tomato mozzarella skewers, mini-wraps, or falafel.

Flowers, twigs, MOSS and other materials from nature are suitable for decorations, that calm can be lush.You can either simply arrange on the table or in a vase. The garden atmosphere very well underscore Tin buckets and nostalgic vases in the form of a jug. Your House and your garden have a modern look, but she can help you with an elegant decoration with linear vases made of glass or shiny metal.

In addition, you can of course as a motto like for example make your garden party"

Depending on the demand on, how many guests you invite, and looks like the design of your garden party or are several dining tables and chairs, or enough alternative beer placemats perfect rustic theme or a rustic garden, for one. To a beach party, or if you want a relaxed atmosphere, lounge furniture, is very well suited.In a large garden, you can create them in different places, to distribute and various seating arrangements.For a special ambience make hammocks, Hollywood swings, deck chairs, or outdoor beanbags.

Adequate protection against the weather

If you have a garden party, you have deep blue skies and brilliant sunshine in the head probably in one ideal.However de weather unpredictable usually is everything, which is why you care for a rain cover. In the best case these specific conditions are fulfilled.

ER must be large enough to have, so that all guests including space. Should it's be stable and secure to secure to the ground. The material rain be impermeable and durable.

The best awning or pavilions, which comes in various versions suitable, therefore,. You can either rent or buy from online stores like this. The purchase is love advisable especially if you often celebrate garden parties.Furthermore, pavilions, sailing and co. As are necessary, in order to protect the guests from the Sun, a nice side effect is that Sun and weather protection can produce such a special flair because he remembered immediately in the summer and spread so comfort. Lights and lanterns, which transform your garden in the evening in the atmospheric ambience attach the Pavilion or the mounting rails for the solar panels.

Do you want a chic garden to build gate itself? That would be a good idea, that could very well like all gardeners. Because your own garden with a Garden Gate can be limited.

The Garden Gate is used as input and output. For this reason with certainty to speak, it has some protection functions With a Garden Gate your garden from the negative effects of the animals to protect you

a Garden Gate could be in important role in the decoration of any garden look great as always and therefore plays so. Feel it should easy to build, to beautify not only a good-looking Garden Gate itself, but your garden.It is very easy and various materials can be used for this purpose. You could use for example wood, wire mesh or plastic. First of all you should a few ideas, looks the home garden. It would be even better, if you draw a sketch. In this way the entire process later simplified can

Many ideas are usually on the Internet available, in this article we will present selected some pictures of us, from which you could perhaps draw inspiration.