TY - JOUR TI - The period of flower carpets and other colourful garden decorations, i.e. kinds of ornamental species used in Europe at the turn of the 20th century AU - Pudelska, Krystyna AU - Rojek, Kamila TI - The period of flower carpets and other colourful garden decorations, i.e. kinds of ornamental species used in Europe at the turn of the 20th century AB - Since the 16th century species of flowers imported from the New World to Europe have enriched botanical gardens, and later palace or manor gardens and public gardens. In the second half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries new flower forms appeared i.e. clumps, flowerbeds and flower decorations. These plant elements were particularly appreciated taking into consideration a quickly growing range of new species and flowering plants. They were also popularized by their creators, gardeners, owners and the users of the modern shaped gardens. In the descriptions of gardens available today, in treatises or many lithographies, we can find the flower forms and species planted in those days. The aim of this thesis is to present selected flower forms in Polish parks and gardens at the turn of the 20th century and specifying species and flower plants typical of certain solutions. VL - 2015 IS - Architektura Zeszyt 10-A (16) 2015 PY - 2016 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 21 EP - 32 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.15.151.4188 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/the-period-of-flower-carpets-and-other-colourful-garden-decorations-i-e-kinds-of-ornamental-species-used-in-europe-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century KW - flower forms flower clumps flower baskets and carpets ornamental plant species introduction landscape gardens