Guest Artist

Our guest artist is a landscape architect.



His name is Zhao Bing. We call him professer Zhao. He came to GCA to teach us some skills of garden design.



First, he explained the definition of chinese word YUAN. The biggest "rectangle" represents the walls.represents the movements of places. The little circle represents well. The little Y represents tree forks.



Gargen this word is from Lartin.



Gargen means to use plants, hills, stocks, steam to make a living space.
The earliest form of garden is found in 11 century, in Zhou dynastry.There are 4 types of garden: Royal garden , Private garden, Temple garden, and landscape garden. Suzhou is famous for gardens. Classical gardens can make you feel in the nature.They also represent the history and Chinese culture. China has a long history. Long long ago, in ancient times, our emperors have beautiful gardens in their palace. Garden design is a tough knowledge.The most important thing of garden design is Natural feelings I think. No luxary, just make it like a nature. That will make people relax.
The environment is another part. When designing a garden, with the local environment harmony. Do not just grow one kind of plants, we need to pay attention to the plant diversity.








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