Ornamental Horticulture

Scale

Scale is a relative dimension. The height and spread of trees and shrubs and the spread of the water garden are determined by adopting a scale. To make it clear, it may be noted that a small reflecting pool underneath a large tree will be dominated by the tree and render the pool ineffective, owing to the difference in their dimensions. To get the right picture of a tree beside a pool we should adopt a ratio between the size of the tree and pool as is obtained in nature. Appropriate adoption of scales and proportionate measurements are the success of imitative naturalistic garden art.