Light and sound effects

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

Lesson 11:Garden Adornments And Structures

Light and sound effects

  • Artificial lights play an important role in the modern garden.
  • Night lighting is used to lengthen the time for enjoying the garden.
  • Lighting, if properly planned, can create special effects such as coloured lighting, silhouette lighting, shadow effects or patterns against buildings.
  • Night lighting provides safety and security for users of the landscape.
  • Besides pleasing visual effects, sounds made by wind, water, insects and birds in the garden create joy.
  • To catch the wind, suitable placement of bamboo, casuarinas and pine trees are made in the garden.
  • Wind, swishing and rushing through bamboo trees or the sound of wind is one of the memorable pleasures in the garden.
  • Apart from wind, the sound of water is another important element.
  • Sounds in the garden may arise from the faint tinkle of drops of water trickling from a bamboo spout into a garden basin or pool, the splash of water falling from a cascade, the gurgle of a brook asit rushes over its rocky gravel course.
  • The whirring and buzzing sounds of insects or chirping of birds bring a warm and friendly

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