Miniature Islamic Gardens – for fulfilling big ideas
Do you feel you’ve got much less space than you need for the garden which you’d ideally like to plan?
Would you rather be a Mughal Emperor, creating avenues, waterfalls and palace buildings, but find yourself limited to space the size of a flower-bed?
There’s an answer. You can build an attractive model of a large Islamic-style garden in a raised flower-bed or in an imitation stone trough, raised on small pillars. These gardens can have miniature pools, fountains, waterfalls, rills and pavilions. You can include features which you could not possibly otherwise obtain. You can free your imagination.
You can also make smaller miniature gardens for indoors. And here’s how!
This feature on miniature islamic gardens expands on our earlier resource about the general principles of Islamic garden design and explains how you can implement the design ideas in a more limited space.
- Outdoor trough gardens and raised flower beds.
- Garden features for a miniature garden.
- Miniature plants for miniature gardens.
- Miniature gardens indoors.
- Steps which need taking at design stage.
Resource Credits
Words by Charles Patmore
Photos by Tanya Jane Patmore
Produced July 2007 for REEP.