> On Apr 30, 2017, at 5:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> What is the difference of a park and a garden in OSM?
TL;DR: to me -
- A garden is a spectacle to enjoy.
- a park is where you enjoy yourself & your own activities.
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A garden is where you enjoy the spectacle of the plants planted there. You are
there to visit the plants and/or their arrangement.
A park is where you can enjoy yourself and your activities. Decorative
flourishes may make an entrance pretty or a fountain nice, but the space is for
you to enjoy your own activities in a calm setting.
A park may also be used as an open space for a civic event (the end of a
marathon, a summer festival), whereas a garden's events are almost always
geared around the spectacle of the garden (illumination, dinner in the garden,
or hosting formal events where the event matches the spectacle of the flowers
(a wedding). A Japanese rock garden (which is maintained to an extreme level)
is solely there to use the spectacle of the stones to contemplate the meaning
of life and wisdom. Nobody is playing on the raked gravel. No kids are sitting
on the rocks eating lunch. It is solely for enjoying the spectacle, not for
helping you to do your own activities.
There may be pretty trees in a park, and once a year they have a big event to
view the blossoms, but a garden is like a zoo. In a few days, I am going to the
Ashikaga Flower Park (a garden) to enjoy viewing the largest and oldest
wisteria plants in Japan. They have tons of different plants for you to enjoy
at different times of they year, and illumination in the winter. Perhaps a more
formal garden is about the spectacle of the maintained space - but it is all
about appreciating the spectacle - no one marvels over a soccer pitch or a row
of maple trees nor considers paying an admission fee to admire the boring
hedges along a walkway. It is there for you to use, like a sidewalk or a
drinking fountain - not a spectacle, like a zoo, an art museum, a theatre
performance, or a manicured garden.
Javbw
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