Configuration elements and principles of plant landscaping

As people have higher and higher requirements for the living environment, plants occupy an important position in the environment. Plant landscaping refers to making the plant community or individual plant bring people a feeling or association of beauty in shape, color, line and shape by means of artificial design, planting, maintenance and other means. that is to create a specific landscape by reasonably matching ornamental plants with planting, modeling and other activities. Plants also play a positive role in regulating human psychology and spirit, and play a role in dividing the space and achieving the landscape effect of changing scenery.

Elements of plant configuration

I. Plant color

Color can change the three-dimensional visual size of real objects, guide people's line of sight, and increase the depth of the landscape. Bright colors, such as red, yellow, orange, etc., make the object appear more prominent and make the object approach visually. Cool colors such as green, blue and purple make objects far away visually. Gray and black are neutral colors, which are most suitable for bright background colors.

Second, plant size

The most direct and realistic spatial characteristics of plant elements. (trees, shrubs), plant size is an element with changing characteristics, all plant design must be considered from two aspects: one is the size of the plant when it is mature, and the other is the size of the plant when it is first planted.

III. Plant shape and morphology

Spherical, umbrella-shaped, hanging branch-shaped, steeple-shaped, tapered, cylindrical, free-shaped. In principle, plants with extreme shapes should be planted alone rather than in groups, such as old tree stump, weeping willow, dragon claw locust, dragon claw willow and so on.

Lines and texture, geometric lines and shapes are a kind of organization method of plant landscape configuration.

Straight lines show strong directionality and movement, so people often use vertical or horizontal flora to guide people's line of sight.

The curve makes the landscape more natural, gentle and elegant. Texture is the synthesis of rough or fine appearance and overall temperament of plants. It is the comprehensive expression of plant size, surface vision, leaf and branch morphology.

Principles of plant allocation

I. the principle of diversity and unity

Diversity and unity is often called unity, and the greatest art is to turn the most complex diversity into the highest degree of unity. Diversity and unity are the basic principles of formal beauty of plant landscape. In plant landscape design, the appearance, color, line, texture and mutual combination of plants should have certain changes to show differences, and at the same time to maintain consistency between them in order to achieve a sense of unity and to seek change in unity and unity in change.

Second, the principle of rhythm and rhythm

In landscape design, regular changes in plants will produce a sense of rhythm, which can avoid monotony. For example, the continuous long ribbon flower bed on the roadside will make people feel very monotonous if there is no change, and if its image is continuously broken to form the situation of large and small flower beds one after another, it will bring a sense of rhythm and rhythm to people's vision.

III. The principle of proportion and scale

Different from the hardware landscape, the relevant spatial proportion of plant landscape configuration should consider not only the three-dimensional spatial relationship, but also the three-dimensional changes of plants in time.

IV. the principle of symmetry and balance

Symmetry is a form with strong regularity and easy to get a sense of balance and stability. Any creation is inseparable from the principle of symmetry and balance.

V. principles of comparison and coordination

Contrast and harmony is a pair of contradictory elements, the application of appropriate aesthetic sense, improper application will form ugliness. Plant landscaping can create strong visual effects and stimulate people's aesthetic experience through the comparison of color, morphology, lines, texture, volume and composition.

VI. The principle of theme and plot

The theme and plot principle is not an indispensable part of the plant landscape configuration, but the works with theme and plot are good works, which can often add cultural factors to the works and bring more interest and compact structure.