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Retreat and Reflection Garden 退思园 Grotesque plants The plants enliven the garden with vigor and interest, enrich the space alteration, and reveal the personality of the owner in his preference of the varieties. Flowers are not only for enjoyment but also endowed with a kind of virtue, or even personified. The most familiar flowers in Suzhou gardens include lotus, peach, laurel, and liana, as well as the much admired plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and pine, which are often the critical finishing touch of the garden. Architectural beauty Suzhou garden are the integration of landscape and residence, where the buildings are usually the key points of the scenery. Yet, to emphasize the natural beauty, buildings are often merged with rocks, waters, and plants as a harmonious whole with a rich culture. Unlike the garden and solemn buildings in the imperial gardens, they are free in layout, light in modeling, delicate in decoration, plain in color. Halls and chambers Big or little, Suzhou gardens all center on the halls as the main sites for daily activities or view enjoyment at leisure. Most halls have a spacious veranda over the water or to the miniature mountains on front. Besides such main halls, minor ones in secondary are also carefully designed for very charming views. Towers Suzhou gardens feature in a wide use of towers for view enjoyment and themselves as the critical scenes of the garden. Pavilions Pavilions in Suzhou gardens are usually set at a hill foot, by water or a path, or in a wood. They seldom have windows or doors, but integrated with the surrounding as sites of scenic charm. Corridors They play an important role in Suzhou gardens as the linking veins. The book Landscape Design says, “It is better for corridors to be winding and long, winding with the land contour and situation, up around the hill, along the watercourse ,to flowers or cross a ditch, further on and on as if endless”. Thus