Roman garden

Information occurs in literature, inscriptions, Roman paintings, and archaeological evidence from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and individual sites throughout the former empire. Gardens included courts surrounded by peristyles, embellished with planting (often in containers), as part of inward-looking town-houses: the atrium (see cavaedium) was also laid out with fruit trees and vines or treated formally, with ornamental planting, statuary, impluvium, and fountains… (Curl & Wilson, 2016)