Garden Planning Styles

Home gardens differ from public gardens, that public garden have large area, and did not have walls as home gardens. Home garden has limited space and is surrounded by walls so that the available light hours are limited, and therefore designer should select some type of plants and not others.

Gardens Planning Styles:
1- Architectural (formal) style: This style characterized by straight lines and symmetry in the distribution of trees and plants of various types and forms. In this system the garden four facets are similar to each other. The symmetry style is necessary in the following cases:
 - In buildings that have similar walls, where straight architecture lines should continue.
 - When there a part of the garden is lower level than other parts.
 - In flat land and rectangular small spaces such as roofs gardens.

The most advantages of this system are as follows:
 - Bounded the garden with straight wall or fence.
 - All garden lines are geometric, they are straight or circular or any other geometric shape.
 - Continuous maintenance of all garden element, taking in account the use of regular growth plants such as conifers or trees that can shaping and cutting. Also choose the colors, shape and texture of the plants that shall give a sense of symmetry.

This system includes different sections:
 1. Symmetry duo: This system divides the land into two equal parts by an axis, so that the units are repeated on both sides of this axis.

 2. Symmetry quartet: This system divides the land into four sections by two perpendicular axes, so that the four sections planned with the same style with a repetition on the sides of the axes.

 3. Symmetry radiation: In this design the parts repeated as rays, out from the center of a circle or from the center of a semi-circle and those parts repeated from the center in equal dimensions. Sectors shall have equal spaced from each other, taking into account not to increase the number of radiation over 4 or 6 or 8 rays.

Disadvantage of this style of gardening, that it need a high cost building and this system only fit on a very flat floors, free of elevations and rock.

2- Natural (informal) style: It is a design that takes into account the nature such as green non-straight promoter, zigzag roads, random trees and water channels. Basic idea of this is style in planning to utilize the beauty of nature and its beautiful scenery contents. This type of design is difficult to implement, despite it appear simply.

This system stands on replace the straight lines with wavy ones. Simplicity is required in this system by leaving the plants to grow naturally without cutting or formation, also those plants are grown in groups and they rarely appear single.

The advantages of this style are as follows:
 - Expansion of green spaces which surrounded by trees, shrubs and flowering plants in irregularly pools shape.
 - Non-straight roads for long distances with small curves.
 - Industrial facilities do not overwhelm the surrounding plants.
 - Farming large plants and non-regular growth plants in rows or in equal dimensions and left them without cutting.

Disadvantage of this system in misunderstanding the nature of plants, for example high plants may obscure what is behind them, and flowers may be absent in garden for long periods.

3- Mixture style: This style is mixture of engineering and natural systems with use of opposite forms. In this model there is a tendency to establish beautiful water facilities, which centered with fountains, as well as statues and seats. While Bridges are made from branches of trees or from iron in geometrical shapes. In this style also, lot groups of trees are used in corners and in the edges of the park.
In this style, flower vase design in different decorative forms and roads are paving with sand or gravel in carved geometric designs.

4- Modern style: Also called European style or North American style, its basis is extreme simplicity. This system does not used rules of coordination, such as axes and symmetry, but distributes plants in small numbers and individual models in order to compensate shortages in the park.

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