Ancient Egyptian Garden Design. 6 Temple gardens incorporated water. Today we often see garden ponds full of fish and flowers as well as fragrant plants.
The_ad id5 Rectangular fish pond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees in a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun Thebes 18th Dynasty. The temple gardens were a fundamental part of the temple complexes whether it was cult or funerary. The design of temple gardens depended on whether they were the cult temple where the images of the living gods resided or were funerary and were intended for occasional use.
Head of small lavender flowers appears in summer followed by clusters of new onion bulbs at the top of the green stems.
They were considered an element of the cosmos that the temples represented. Garden Design in Ancient Egypt Egypts main artery was the Nile the river that fed the narrow valley that is the Nile delta depositing rich fertile silt on the land and providing life giving water. Its mile-long canal imposing entrance gate numerous trees and large vineyard all suggest royal wealth. The descriptions of the Garden of Eden correspond to the designs of ancient Egyptian gardens.
