**4. Discussion**

Results of the research carried out through several decades on historic gardens and landscapes can and ought to be applied to specific planning situations. That is why this chapter comprises selected examples1 of projects where the historic value of the planned visual link between the garden and its surroundings is possible to identify, the compositional value of the visual axes and prospects is high and increases the aesthetic quality of the manor garden and the surrounding landscape; also, the visual features bear some symbolic meanings.

The projects for various sites introduce some specific historic garden reconstructions, which demonstrate the potential planning approaches required in a given situation for all garden reconstruction categories established. Through the examples, I intend to systematically summarise and evaluate the

<sup>1</sup> The authors plans realised.

garden reconstruction theories in Hungary at the beginning of the 21st century and to formulate new findings and proposals on the contemporary principles on historic garden restoration and planning.

The introductions of the renewal projects are not comprehensive: partly due to the limitations on length, and partly to focus on the topics (the garden scenery and the planned views) of the paper, only the relevant details of the projects have been included. Thus functional, technical and infrastructural, (roads, pavements, public utilities, lighting, earthworks), ecological and dendrological (plant geography, dendrology, plant associations, plant species applied, etc.), pedological, hydrological, hard landscaping, above ground drainage, and design aspects are introduced only to an extent necessary to have a general understanding of the specific example.
