Furniture Design Ideas

In certain spots a combination of indigenous vegetation in combination with horticultural cultivars may be applied. Traditional parks and public gardens, generally planted with cultivars, offer many situations to do so. Their atmosphere may lend itself perfectly to blend in with some wildoccuring indigenous species. Practical examples include: Lamium galeobdolon ‘Florentinum’ with Campanula trachelium and […]

In refined and intensive plantings, nursery grown herbs are planted out. This is done in a global fashion, using a design as a guide only: one plants out spontaneously and intuitively by hand. The species are planted in such a way that the planting matches the plants’ natural growth patterns, that is to say, in […]

Herbaceous plants form a layer of their own in woodland plantings. In order to create opportunities for variety, it is desirable that: – sufficient gaps are available within the woodland, allowing the light to reach down to ground level, with varying intensity – the fringes of the plantings are open, in order to admit lateral […]

The variation in the composition of tree stands can be maintained by using a differentiated method of thinning, cutting back, pruning and leaving untouched. In older stands it is not always easy to keep this in hand: the older the trees, the more difficult it becomes. After trees and shrubs have reached their maximum height, […]

How one should deal with wood prunings—removal to a different place or leaving it in the planting, with or without reducing its size or concentration—depends on the planting’s type, character and atmosphere. In highly refined plantings, one will always remove the waste for aesthetic reasons. The rougher its character, the more wood waste one can […]

After the initial phase, a period follows in which the stand of the woody planting is very tight, and, although space is created by means of thinning and cutting back, this will, for some time, be restricted to the space needed by the trees and shrubs themselves. The trees and shrubs still have low branches, […]

Methods of management for herbaceous plants in newly planted woody plantings have often been described. Experiments have been carried out by many parties. Most of these experiments led to the conclusion that herbaceous plants can be planted in the initial phase without adverse effects on the young woody planting. Some have argued that this method […]

As woody plants and especially trees form the backbone of a park, they always demand special attention and care. With them one maintains the defining green structure of a park or garden. Wherever possible they should be allowed to fully evolve into their own characteristic habit. This requires much space, which is not always available. […]

In the following sections the practice of detailed maintenance and management will be dealt with. A number of vegetation units are discussed: – woody plantings, plantings with trees and shrubs and woodland planting – herbaceous undergrowth – open vegetations and herbaceous vegetations of open spaces – cultivated flower fields, cultivated fields rich in flowers and […]

In the old parks, the woody species exert their full influence on reducing the open, light, sunny spaces. This encourages the opportunities for woodland edge and fringe species, but diminishes the chances for the lovers of full sun and light. Their habitats decrease in size and become scarcer. All this has an influence on the […]