Mughal Gardens

Mughal Gardens are a type of garden built by Mughals based on a Persian type of architecture,they are an example of landscape horticulture. Many mughal gardens use lots of rectangular and square shaped layouts which are made inside walled areas.Some of the decorations in a mughal gardens include a pool, a fountain,and canals inside the gardens. The first types of mughal gardens were called Agra gardens.

Mughal gardens were made because the leader Babur 's favorite type of garden was a charbagh. Charbagh gardens used a lot of streams and canals. India's gardens lacked the streams used in Charbagh gardens. So, Babur made a new type of garden which was called Mughal gardens. Mughal gardens were usually designed by kings and built by architects and builders.

Building gardens was a popular pastime for the Imperial family.Babur, the first Mughal conqueror-king, built many gardens. His son, didn't build many gardens because he was dealing with the kingdom,but he did spend a lot of time at his father’s gardens. A later king named Akbar built several gardens in Delhi and Agra,the new capital. These were riverfront gardens rather than the walled gardens that his ancestors built. Building riverfront gardend rather than fortress gardens made later Mughal gardens a lot different! Mughal gardens are some of the most well known gardens in the world,such as the Taj Mahal’s garden. From everything I have learned I know that Mughal gardens are really beautiful gardens and loved worldwide.