The textbook includes a short theoretical material on the following sections: garden style, gardening art of the Ancient World; China's garden and park art; garden and park art in Japan; landscape art of the Middle Ages; the later Middle Ages; landscape art during the Renaissance; baroque style; the formation of a regular style in the landscape art of Europe; regular and landscape style trends in landscape gardening art in Russia; urban and public gardens in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century; garden and park art of the second half of the twentieth century; landscape gardening art of foreign countries of the twentieth century; landscape gardening art of the beginning of the XXI century.