What elements does it take to make a garden? The answer is not only difficult to define and variable from house to house, but also dependent on the country or culture it hopes to represent.
Here is a photographic exploration of a sample of garden shapes and designs from around the world - Germany to Japan, Italy to China, the Netherlands to Korea and Thailand. Whether or not they could be seen as ambassadors to their cultures, they are aesthetically captivating in wildly different ways.
A garden is a place to feel close to nature within a city, to order one's thoughts among the chaos, to relax and unburden oneself. What constitutes a satisfying garden, however in the end is simply a matter of personal taste.
