Landscape Designing

LANDSCAPE DESIGNING FRMT 325 Cr. Hr. 3(1+2)

Lesson 06:Landscape Styles

Landscape Garden Style

• In landscape style of gardening, irregular massing of the landscape elements predominates.
• The nature of the garden is preserved in a natural way in landscape style.
• While designing such gardens, natural sloping and elevation of the land is maintained.
• Such gardens are designed so that it looks like natural scenery from a distance.




• Flowering shrubs and perennial plants are grouped together and bulbous plants are neutralized in grass land.
• The areas of lawns have informal boundaries and paths are laid out in pleasing curves.
• No leveling off the ground is done on sloping sites.
• The undulating surface adds to the effect and retains the natural atmosphere.
• Hillocks, small ponds, rivers, lily pools, large lawns, dry and dead trees, bird nests, mass plantation of trees and shrubs, natural ups and downs of the land, natural forests, irregular paths, beds and grasslands are some of the important features in landscape style gardens.
• While laying out such gardens it must be ensured that there is some unifying medium distributed throughout the design welding the plan together.
• Nothing should be allowed to stand out in a scene which strikes a discordant note or does not seem to belong to it.
• There should be a natural and logical transition from one part of the garden to another.
• Any division of the garden into compartments without proper connections is to be avoided.