GARDEN CULTURE OF THE EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT AND IDENTITY LANDSCAPING IN THE SOUTH OF BRAZIL

Official garden culture in Brazil began with the installation of the Portuguese court in the country at the beginning of the 19th century, encouraging visits from naturalists of that age and giving rise to the installation of artistic missions, above all from the French, who aided later government interventions in public park and garden areas.
Nevertheless, in daily life, the Brazilian’s relationship with plant cultivation is a heritage composed of autochthonous (Indian), slave and immigrant cultures.
Thus it gave rise to informal gardening and a plant use culture from the discovery of the Terra brasilis in 1500. It became more pronounced as of the middle of the 18th century with the mass arrival of the first Azorean immigrants.
Most European immigrants came to the south of Brazil in a systematic way during the imperial phase in the 19th century.
There one can gain a sense of different forms of intervention in gardens and landscaping as result of this mixture.
There is a vernacular landscaping with minimal artistic intervention characterized principally by the Pampa and local forests.
It represents the fancy of descendents of Indians and Africans in the region.
They coexist with the patrimonial and naturalist identity landscaping of immigrants of diverse European origins.
Three case studies present aspects of these landscaping models from three cities of the region.
It includes the difficulty of a glimpse of new landscaping and gardens in agricultural border areas, considered that for most European descendents concern for environmental questions is still incipient.

XXVIII International Horticultural Congress on Science and Horticulture for People (IHC2010): International Symposium on Advances in Ornamentals, Landscape and Urban Horticulture

C. Petry

patrimonial garden, naturalist garden, vernacular garden

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.937.157