Lesson 05:Art Elements And Principles Of landscape Design
Plant material as design elements
Plants have aesthetic value.
Owing to attributes and qualities that collectively are called beauty, certain plants provide pleasure.
Most plants have an inherent capacity to stimulate visually.
The most obvious feature of plants is their colouring.
Along with the brilliant hues of flowers, fruits and leaves, the muted tones of stem and bark also provide wide range of colours that are visually pleasing.
The stimulation that plant colour provides is enhanced by contrast and texture.
Visual effects are the form, shape and structure of plants.
Form can be seen not only in the plant as a whole but in its parts as well.
The forms of plants are infinitely varied.
The perpetual interest in plants is a result of their ordered arrangement of parts, which involve symmetry, the repetition of parts on either side of an axis.
The plants show both symmetrical as well as asymmetrical patterns of growth.
Visible features of plant material serve as design element.
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