The landscape gardening is not only aesthetic which is meant to beautify places but also functional and important. Surroundings make a significant contribution to our quality of life. The word ‘landscape’ does not only mean attractive scenery, but represents a rich historical record of natural features, molded by human activity over the centuries. It forms the context for our everyday lives and is reflected in our literature, music and painting.
The art of landscape gardening will involve considering the total environment of any new development and then shaping it using natural elements such as landform, trees, shrubs, and water to form a pleasing harmony.
This can make a constructive contribution to the improvement rather than the destruction of environment.
Plants that form an important element in landscape design aid in reducing the pollution of the environment and minimizing some of the effects of heat, sound, wind, air etc.
Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during photosynthetic process and purifying the air.
Plants with thick foliage also trap pollutants, which are later on washed away by the rains.
Some plants, such as Hydrangea, Mustard, and Hyacinth absorb toxic material from the environment they are in.
Plants can block, diffuse, guide or channel winds. Plants can be used to direct wind so that the wind flushes out the polluted air.
Plants control erosion caused due to excessive wind, rain or snow.Plants with good branching and deep root system and also those with fibrous surface roots help reducing the loss of fertile top soil.
Plants reduce radiated heat thereby bringing down temperature.
In winter, deciduous trees which shed their leaves allow lights to pass through, thereby warm the space.
In addition to their utility, plants have aesthetic values too.
Plants give pleasure.
Form can be seen not only in the plant as a whole but in its parts as well.
Most plants have an inherent capacity to stimulate visually. Their most obvious feature is their colouring, not only the brilliant hues of flowers, fruits and leaves, but also the muted tones of stem and bark. Green the most common colour is psychologically the most restful. The stimulation that plant colour provides is enhanced by contrast and texture. Visual effects are the plants structure and shape.
Landscape gardens have contributed for the development of landscape horticulture industry.
The growing of plants for the landscape is referred to as the nursery business
A nursery is the place where any young plant is grown or maintained before permanent planting.
The nursery industry involves the production and distribution of woody and herbaceous plants and includes ornamental bulbous crops.
The production of cuttings to be grown in green houses or for indoor use(foliage plants), as well as the production of bedding plants is considered a part of floriculture which is the contribution of landscape garden.
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