The Indian Char Bagh Garden...

...or enclosed four-part garden "has been one of the most significant types of traditional garden. Between the 8th and 18th centuries these gardens spread through the Muslim world from Asia and North Africa to Spain.
Originally Paradise Gardens, they were also known as the Universal Garden because of their widespread use and traditional symbolism for the universe itself, derived from very ancient roots in Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islamism and Buddhism.
In India these gardens became a distinctive art form during the 16th and 17th centuries, firstly under Mughal rulers then, later, under the Hindu aristocracy.
This garden is an interpretation of a residential riverside garden or Kursi-cum-char bagh, common along city riverbanks such as the Janina in Agra.
The Indian char bagh gardens were poetic, secret, pleasure gardens in which you could feel the breezes in the open-minded pavilion, hear the sound of sparkling water and enjoy the perfume of the flowers in a living Persian carpet."

This is from the information board in Hamilton Gardens, which we visited this afternoon. A large part of the garden is divided into many different styles of garden as smaller, interconnecting 'rooms' within the whole. I chose this to Blip as the most colourful and as it does not indicate the heavy rain that frequently fell during our time there. Well worth the visit in any weather.