Perception of Garden in Turkish Culture

In the historical process, garden culture has been developed generally with the essence of “watching it” in the west and “living its inside” in the east. it is well known that every civilization has cultivated a unique garden strategy and gardens have been transformed according to the dominant social, cultural, ecological and topographic qualities of the land they are situated. the turkish garden culture has also been transmuted in a mystical and literary approach parallel to the changes in different periods. in this study, the changes in the forms of garden perception in turkish civilizations and the reflections of these changes in gardens and various art branches were examined in the historical process with the aim of bringing back turkish gardens into life by emphasizing the plants, which symbolize our garden culture.