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Landscape Design

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Tehreem Saher

Landscape design is the art of arranging or modifying the features of a yard, an urban area, etc., for aesthetic or practical reasons. For organizational purposes, it is often divided into two major parts: hardscape and softscape.

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LANDSCAPE IN ARCHITECTURE
Fast Growing Shade Trees are a wide selection of trees that are quick in growth and can withstand harsh conditions consequently providing an endurable environment to the population and other tree species. Some of the most popular trees around today are fast growing trees. Fast growing trees give homeowners the opportunity to realize the benefits of a mature tree sooner. Individuals seem to especially focus on using fast growing shade trees and in their landscape to reap the benefits of these value added.
Landscape Design
A good mix of plant personalities creates an interesting and appealing garden. Texture, form, size, and color are the physical characteristics of plants that provide interest, variety, and aesthetic appeal to a landscape. Besides being essential to life on our planet, plants add beauty and charm with their unique forms and color. Physical characteristics give each plant a distinct look and personality.
Landscape Design
Tree forms are often dominant in the garden because of their size. Trees are also the most functional plants in the landscape, providing shade and blocking views, so when choosing a tree form, consider function first. Creating a shady area in the garden requires a round or oval tree, while a screen usually requires a more columnar or pyramidal form, and a weeping tree form makes a good focal point. It is also important to ensure the tree will not outgrow the space and require severe pruning. Choose the tree for its mature size and shape in relation to the space. Common tree forms include vase, columnar, round, weeping, and pyramidal.
Landscape Design
This natural phenomenon gives us an excellent example and point of reference for our designed landscapes. A plant grouping exemplifies simplicity and makes it easy on the eye and mind. The result is a pleasant and comfortable setting where it just feels right. By arranging your plant groupings you can lead the eye to focal points or destinations in your design. in effect you can influence how people move through the gardens.
Landscape Design
Plants which are native to the tropical regions of world. The consistent climate conditions in the areas where these plants evolved, they have a number of very specific adaptations which make them very unique. Many people in tropical and subtropical regions like to use tropical plants in landscaping, and they are also kept as houseplants and specimens all over the world, with especially distinctive examples fetching very high prices from specialty purveyors.
CHARACTERISTICS OF TROPICAL PLANTS: LARGE, BROAD LEAVES LUSH, GREEN FOLIAGE BRIGHTLY COLORED FLOWERS Popular Tropical Landscaping Plants: Palm trees Bamboo Bougainvillea Begonias Bromeliads Ferns Cycads Bird of Paradise
These are commonly used in landscape plantings because they provide interesting shapes and textures, colorful foliage, flowers and twigs, fruits for wildlife food and winter color, pleasant fragrances, screening and sound reduction, and a variety of other attributes . Unlike evergreens, deciduous shrubs loose their leaves in winter and therefore can create with a changing landscape throughout the year.
Landscape Design
Characteristics that create fine texture include small, delicate foliage; thin, strappy leaves (grasses); tall, thin stems; small, fragile twigs with many branches; narrow trunks; and small, delicate flowers. They are often described as wispy and light or with a sprawling, form. Fine-textured plants can sometimes have a stronger form because the small individual leaves are densely packed to create a solid form. Plants with a fine texture include grasses, ferns, Japanese maples, vines, and junipers with fine needles.
Landscape Design
Landscape hedges provide several additions to a home garden or landscape. They can mark property lines, provide barriers for people and animals, screen off unattractive views and act as a windbreak. Landscape hedges are easy to maintain and can be planted in nearly any climate. They are a great addition to any garden. Landscape hedges are simply trees, bushes or shrubs that have been planted in a row. They are planted close enough to allow them to spread and grow together.
Landscape Design
Today rows are highly valued by people, and for many reasons. In the past they were considered essential for marking ownership boundaries, and for keeping livestock in or out of fields. Although rows remain vitally important for agriculture, these particular reasons for keeping hedges are less valid now, with the easy availability of accurate maps, GPS and wire fencing.
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  • 2. Fast Growing Shade Trees are a wide selection of trees that are quick in growth and can withstand harsh conditions consequently providing an endurable environment to the population and other tree species. Some of the most popular trees around today are fast growing trees. Fast growing trees give homeowners the opportunity to realize the benefits of a mature tree sooner. Individuals seem to especially focus on using fast growing shade trees and in their landscape to reap the benefits of these value added.
  • 4. A good mix of plant personalities creates an interesting and appealing garden. Texture, form, size, and color are the physical characteristics of plants that provide interest, variety, and aesthetic appeal to a landscape. Besides being essential to life on our planet, plants add beauty and charm with their unique forms and color. Physical characteristics give each plant a distinct look and personality.
  • 6. Tree forms are often dominant in the garden because of their size. Trees are also the most functional plants in the landscape, providing shade and blocking views, so when choosing a tree form, consider function first. Creating a shady area in the garden requires a round or oval tree, while a screen usually requires a more columnar or pyramidal form, and a weeping tree form makes a good focal point. It is also important to ensure the tree will not outgrow the space and require severe pruning. Choose the tree for its mature size and shape in relation to the space. Common tree forms include vase, columnar, round, weeping, and pyramidal.
  • 8. This natural phenomenon gives us an excellent example and point of reference for our designed landscapes. A plant grouping exemplifies simplicity and makes it easy on the eye and mind. The result is a pleasant and comfortable setting where it just feels right. By arranging your plant groupings you can lead the eye to focal points or destinations in your design. in effect you can influence how people move through the gardens.
  • 10. Plants which are native to the tropical regions of world. The consistent climate conditions in the areas where these plants evolved, they have a number of very specific adaptations which make them very unique. Many people in tropical and subtropical regions like to use tropical plants in landscaping, and they are also kept as houseplants and specimens all over the world, with especially distinctive examples fetching very high prices from specialty purveyors.
  • 11. CHARACTERISTICS OF TROPICAL PLANTS: LARGE, BROAD LEAVES LUSH, GREEN FOLIAGE BRIGHTLY COLORED FLOWERS Popular Tropical Landscaping Plants: Palm trees Bamboo Bougainvillea Begonias Bromeliads Ferns Cycads Bird of Paradise
  • 12. These are commonly used in landscape plantings because they provide interesting shapes and textures, colorful foliage, flowers and twigs, fruits for wildlife food and winter color, pleasant fragrances, screening and sound reduction, and a variety of other attributes . Unlike evergreens, deciduous shrubs loose their leaves in winter and therefore can create with a changing landscape throughout the year.
  • 14. Characteristics that create fine texture include small, delicate foliage; thin, strappy leaves (grasses); tall, thin stems; small, fragile twigs with many branches; narrow trunks; and small, delicate flowers. They are often described as wispy and light or with a sprawling, form. Fine-textured plants can sometimes have a stronger form because the small individual leaves are densely packed to create a solid form. Plants with a fine texture include grasses, ferns, Japanese maples, vines, and junipers with fine needles.
  • 16. Landscape hedges provide several additions to a home garden or landscape. They can mark property lines, provide barriers for people and animals, screen off unattractive views and act as a windbreak. Landscape hedges are easy to maintain and can be planted in nearly any climate. They are a great addition to any garden. Landscape hedges are simply trees, bushes or shrubs that have been planted in a row. They are planted close enough to allow them to spread and grow together.
  • 18. Today rows are highly valued by people, and for many reasons. In the past they were considered essential for marking ownership boundaries, and for keeping livestock in or out of fields. Although rows remain vitally important for agriculture, these particular reasons for keeping hedges are less valid now, with the easy availability of accurate maps, GPS and wire fencing.
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