Chinese gardens are wonderful!
Have you seen Monty Don exploring a Chinese garden ? I love his bewilderment at the rocks in the Suzhou gardens. The landscape painter at minute 16 is a friend of Kaili Fu.
Not all Chinese gardens are in China!
A new Chinese Garden at RHS Bridgewater. The pavilions represent the Four Arts. Background to the garden.
Creating the Ming-style courtyard garden in the Metropolitan Museum.
The Huntingdon, LA, has a podcast series “Unscholarly” Gardens: Rethinking the Gardens of China
The “Secret garden” room in the Forbidden City is not a literal garden.
Garden scenes – plum blossom by Wang Shishen.
Peony history
A little more on gardens.