The Elizabethan Garden consisted of numerous themes that were passed to them from other cultures.  The Elizabethans saw the garden as devices as well as for flowers.  The gardens were used for pleasure, cooking spices, entertaining, science and for escape.
          As for the flowers in the garden,  most were wild and natural to the countryside.  Bushes, trees, low hedges, and turf paths would have been the main design points of the gardens rather than flowers.  The pattern of the gardens often depicted the Turkish carpets that were imported during the Queen's time. The designs of the carpets were portrayed in knot gardens and mazes.
          The actual gardens themselves were rectangular or square.  The sections ranged from four, to nine, and sometimes even 12 rectangles.  Typically there was a retaining wall or fence around the garden with fruit trees and rose bushes set within to offset the structure.  In the middle of the garden there would be a wide path with a low fence that was complimented by fruit trees and clipped bushes.  Set within the low fence near the path would be daffodils, snowdrops, or crocus to form an inner border.  From the main path there would be smaller inner paths with the intention of taking you to an attraction at the end of the path.  Often times you would find a fountain or flower display in an extravagant garden, but you would most likely come upon a knot garden or either turf, gravel, sand, or low clipped shrubs.  The objectives of the gardens were for pattern rather than for individual flower displays.
          The water features were for the more expensive gardens because of the difficulty to get water to the fountain and to keep it running for the visitors.  Wooden statues were more common, Queen Elizabeth had 34 in her own garden.  The most common features of the gardens were topiaries of yew, boxwood, or some woody perennials.  These topiaries took the shape of different geometric shapes and sometimes of animals.  Towards the end of the Elizabethan Era, science began to take shape in horticulture.  The gardens were used as a study ground of hydraulics and for capturing the sun.