Landscape parks are an important part of cultural heritage and create characteristic features of a cultural landscape. The paper is divided to two parts. First, the ideal landscape park is presented as it was created in the works of theorists, philosophers, and gardeners in the 18th and 19th centuries. The ideal landscape park should be intentionally irregular and it should communicate with the surrounding landscape. The landscape parks were furnished with several follies and both domestic and introduced plants were cultivated.