Test of the Formal Garden

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The Test of the Formal Garden
(Test - Art and Music)
Level Required
Level 11
Demonstration
Demonstrated by Ashen on October 31, 2018

Design a Formal Garden with 7 to 100 exotic flowers surrounding a Gazebo. Gardens are rated on variety and detail, not size.

Periodically, the Gardener with the highest rated garden passes the Test.

Test Description

You sign up for the Test of the Formal Garden and learn to construct a Gazebo, the centerpiece of any formal garden. You also learn to build decorative Stellae, which may contain information on your plants. You are instructed that formal gardens must have between 7 and 100 flowers within a 100 foot radius. Formal gardens may be judged by any Initiate of Art and Music, and should be judged for beauty and variety of flora, not raw volume of plant matter.

Unlike other art Tests, Formal Gardens may be tended after judging has opened.

Principles

Formal Gardens are arrangements of flowers and labeled Stellae describing the arrangements, geneology, and design philosophy of the space. You have the option of tearing down your Gazebo early, skipping the Judging steps.

• Build a Gazebo
• Plant a Flower
• Crossbreed a Flower
• Plant a Crossbred Flower
• Build a Stella
• Label a Stella
• Open your Formal Garden for Judging
• Tear down your Gazebo OR do the following:
  • Have Seven Judges rate your Formal Garden
  • Design rated Good by most judges

Additional Information

Gazebo

is built in a Small Construction Site

Designing Your Garden

"Choose a pleasing array of flowers and arrange them within a 100-foot radius of your Gazebo, which is probably best built in a scenic area away from too much traffic."

  Having less than 7 flowers OR more than 100 flowers within the 100 foot radius prevents you from opening your gazebo for judging!
  1 coordinate = 16 feet = about 5 meters. So 100 feet is roughly 6.25 coords (conversion source: Travel)

Choosing a scenic location can be helpful, as making pretty terrain prettier can be short work. You can also use other kinds of buildings to enhance the area, but remember that flowers create quite a bit of lag - you might want to take this in consideration when you build. Also, too many things in one place means that it will be tricky to see it all because of the limits on object rendering... Sometimes less is more.

How to judge a garden

Formal gardens may be judged by any Initiate of Art and Music, and should be judged for beauty and variety of flowers, not raw volume of plant matter.

  Keep in mind that the surrounding of a garden, many times, can not be helped - In other words, a garden in the middle of a desert
  has the potential to be just as spectacular as a garden set up in a highly decorated camp.

Unlike other art Tests, Formal Gardens may be tended after judging has opened.

Crossbreeding Flowers

You can learn more about making new strains of flowers in the Genetics guides.

Design a Formal Garden with 7 to 100 exotic flowers surrounding a Gazebo. Gardens are rated on variety and detail, not size.

Periodically, the Gardener with the highest rated garden passes the Test.

Demonstration

Must be unlocked by someone holding 500 orchid bulbs (can be a mixture of different kinds)

Region	Coordinates	Designer	Name	Passed	Remarks	RL Date Opened
South Sinai	3377, 4599	KayGee	Desert Super Bloom	Yes	On Road South of Taba CS	11/8/2018
South Sinai	3474, 4775	Spatulus	Spat's Glorious Walk of Shame	No	East of Taba	11/23/2018
Asyut	1764, 2028	Tedra		No	At the end of Puzzle row	3/9/2019
MW	1135, 6965	Murtha		No	East of Tanis	3/25/2019