Landscape Designing

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

Lesson 10:Garden Features

Arches

• An arch is a semicircular structure generally constructed near the gate or over paths for training climbers or ramblers in the garden.
• The real use of an arch in the garden is to form a sort of screen or connecting link between one part of a garden and another.


• An arch should be at least 2 to 2.5 meter high, so that the branches of creepers hanging down should not interface with access.
• The breadth depends upon the path over which it is constructed but should not be less than 1 meter.
• Arches can be constructed with support of wooden poles over which longitudinal rails are placed and cross rails are fixed with nails over these at intervals of 45-60 cm.
• In Rajasthan and Bangalore the supporting poles made of stone pillars are used. The roof may be made of wood or angle iron of suitable section.


• The angle irons can be fixed with the stones by the help of clamps and the cross rails may be welded or fixed with nuts and bolts.
• The best method of making an arch is to use angle iron support firmly grounded in the soil by concrete.
• The roof made of angle irons of different sections may be flat, arch-type, or angular with slopes on either side


• The support can also be made of 7-10 cm diameter galvanized pipes fixed in a similar way.
• On the top of each pipe a galvanized or steel plate (22.5x22.5 cm) with holes should be welded which will facilitate the fixing of the longitudinal angle irons with the help of nuts and bolts or clamps.
• Galvanized wire nettings may be fixed on the sides of the arches to help the creepers to climb up.
• The angle iron and galvanized iron pipes are to be coated with rust proof paints.
• The portions above ground should be painted green.
• In order to cover the arch thickly, the climber should be trained on it properly at the beginning.