Landscape Designing

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

Lesson 11:Garden Adornments And Structures

Floral clocks

• Floral Clocks are huge clocks, generally operated by electricity, having huge hands for showing the seconds, minutes, and hours.
• The machinery of the clock is concealed in an underground chamber with only the hands showing above the ground against a dial of carpet bedding plants' or flower beds.
• A carpet bedding of green plants (e.g., Pilea muscosa, Sedum) with figures made of red plants (e.g., Alternanthera, Ireshine sp.) or vice-versa looks quite ornamental.
• Similar effects can be obtained by planting flower beds of various coloured flowering annuals.
• The problem with annuals is that these are to be replaced seasonally, whereas carpet bedding plants are of permanent nature.
• Instead of living plants the dial can be decorated with various coloured (natural or artificially coloured) pebbles also.
• Sometimes floral clocks are positioned in a garden as a feature