Straight path in a garden, often lined with trees.

The classical idealized landscape, usually with nymphs and swains. It is the pagan equivalent to Paradise. Also, an area around Camelback Road east of 44th Street, with few nymphs or swains.

The stylistic period of the late 16th and 17th centuries, theatrical, dense, energetic and often quite confused and confusing, which loves pomp, illusion and drama.

The architectural equivalent of a highway scenic overlook: a room or enclosure from which to view a landscape to advantage.

The architectural equivalent of a highway scenic overlook: a room or enclosure from which to view a landscape to advantage.

Small woody area or clump of trees, usually some distance, designed as an ornamental backdrop.

(English: embroidery) - A very curling decorative pattern within a parterre, created with trimmed yew or box, or made by cutting the pattern out of a lawn and filling it with colored gravel.

Just what it sounds like: the part of the world we live in that wasn't given to us by nature.

A whimsical or grotesque ornament in the landscape, such as the giant sculptural faces in a Mannerist garden.

Fancy name for a decorative greenhouse as an architectural feature in a garden.