Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Greening Up Spaces

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Great Landscapes People have been greening up spaces for more than 3,000 years Gardens in ancient Egypt were formal and symmetrical spaces Early Italian gardens were built like open-air buildings Everything was structured Trees were pruned into artificial shapes called topiary In the 1700s in England there was a switch to a more natural free-form look GreENinG Of a COnTinENt When Europeans traveled to North America they brought their gardening styles along Landscapers now had a choice of styles Frederick Law Olmsted is often called the father of American landscape architecture He helped design New York City’s Central Park and the Capitol grounds in Washington D C Olmsted believed parks should be functional green spaces for public use In 1900 his son taught the country’s first course in landscape architecture at Harvard University A GarDEn By ANy oThER naME There are formal gardens food gardens water gardens roof gardens gardens for entertaining and gardens for wildlife Calming Japanese-style zen gardens are made up of a large area of raked sand with a rock or two and a few plants They are built on the idea that humans are part of nature In a zen garden rocks symbolize mountains and raked sand represents water 6