BEAUTY OF NATURE

  MUGHAL GARDEN INTRODUCTION:             Spread over a vast expanse of 15 acres, Mughal   Gardens has often been portrayed, and deservedly so, as the soul   of   the Presidential Palace. The Mughal   Gardens draw its inspiration from the Mughal   Gardens of Jammu and Kashmir, the gardens around the Taj Mahal   and even miniature paintings of India and Persia.             Sir Edwin Lutyens had finalized the designs of the Mughal   Gardens as early as 1917, however it was only during the year 1928-1929 that plantings were done.   His   collaborators for the gardens was Director of Horticulture, William Mustoe. Sir Lutyens brought together two different horticulture traditions together for the gardens, the Mughal   style and the English flower garden. Mughal canals , terraces and flowering shrubs are beautifully   blended with European   flowerbeds, lawns and private hedges.             In Christopher Hussey’s The life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Lutyens’ wife has written t