Olmsted designed primarily in pastoral and picturesque styles, each to achieve a particular effect. The pastoral style featured vast expanses of green with small lakes, trees, and groves and produced a soothing, restorative effect on the viewer. The picturesque style covered rocky, broken terrain teeming with shrubs and creepers, to express nature's richness. The picturesque style played with light and shade to lend the landscape a sense of mystery.
Olmsted designed primarily in pastoral and picturesque styles each to achieve a particular effect The pastoral style featured vast expanses of green with small lakes trees and groves and produced a soothing restorative effect on the viewer The picturesque style covered rocky broken terrain teeming with shrubs and creepers to express nature's richness The picturesque style played with light and shade to lend the landscape a sense of mystery