Editing Garden design (section)

====History====
[[Persian gardens]] are credited with originating aesthetic and diverse planting design. A correct Persian garden will be divided into four sectors with water being very important for both irrigation and aesthetics. The four sectors symbolize the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] elements of sky, earth, water and plants.<ref name="The Persian Garden">{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1372/|title=The Persian Garden|access-date=25 January 2011|work=UNESCO}}</ref> Planting in ancient and Medieval European gardens was often a mix of herbs for medicinal use, vegetables for consumption, and flowers for decoration. Purely aesthetic planting layouts developed after the medieval period in [[:Category:Renaissance gardens|Renaissance gardens]], as are shown in late-Renaissance paintings and plans. The designs of the [[Italian Renaissance garden]] were geometrical and plants were used to form spaces and patterns. The [[gardens of the French Renaissance]] and Baroque ''[[French formal garden|jardin à la française]]'' era continued the [[formal garden]] planting aesthetic.

In Asia the asymmetrical traditions of planting design in [[Chinese garden]]s and [[Japanese gardens]] originated in the [[Jin dynasty (266–420)]] of China. The gardens' plantings have a controlled but naturalistic aesthetic. In Europe the arrangement of plants in informal groups developed as part of the [[landscape garden|English Landscape Garden]] style, and subsequently the [[French landscape garden]], and was strongly influenced by the [[picturesque]] art movement.