This unique style called also Muslim or Mauritian has developed in the Middle Ages in areas where the population consisted mainly of Muslims. It connects luxury of subtropical greens, refined and spicy aromas of flowers and fruit, cool and freshness of water.
It will be useful for landscape designers and ordinary amateur gardeners to learn how to issue garden in the Arab style that it disposed to reflection about eternal matters and brought rest during midday heat.
Garden in Mauritian style - the principles of composition
1) Plannings are the cornerstone the accurate direct guides differentiating space on squares. It can be both paths, and channels with water.
2) The Islamic garden has to have rectangular shape and to be strictly symmetric to rather longitudinal axle on which there are central gate which always are perfectly decorated with intricate ornament. From gate the stone wall surrounding the site on all perimeter begins.
3) The water element (fountain, reservoir) or the easy pavilion has to serve as the center of all composition. Here all main avenues or water currents separating space into segments meet.
4) Plants land in strictly certain order, as a rule, along guides (paths or channels).
5) The most effective look has to appear from the center to the periphery. Each prospect surely comes to the end with gate or vaulted design.
6) For decoration of avenues the paving with inclusion of mosaic ornaments, as a rule, is used.
7) For the site located on slope in planning terraces are used, top of which it is always intended to women.
How to choose plants for Mauritian garden
The Muslim garden cannot exist without trees, including surely fruit, giving the shadow necessary in the southern climate, and juicy, fragrant fruits for guests.
The various blossoming bushes decorate and recover space. And, first of all, it is delightful fragrant roses of all possible shades: purple, ashy-pink, ochry, gentle and lemon. It is fine if the smell of roses is added by aromas of spicy plants.
What water objects are necessary on the site?
The Islamic garden in landscaping assumes availability of obligatory attribute – waters which refresh and invigorate. Besides, it is paradise symbol at Muslims. Water is always present at several options: fountains and pools, canals and ponds, multistage modulations and falls.
Edges of reservoirs are revetted with marble, mosaic or glass.
Fountains are carried out on special canons. They represent simple streams, are never decorated with images of animals or people as it is forbidden by religion.
In the evening water objects will look more effectively if to equip them with special illumination.