2023 Mainstream Landscape Plant Landscaping Style Trends
"Landscape archaeology", a little look back at the plant effect in the mainstream market landscape products that landed in 2014, rich and full green levels, bright and contrasting plant tones - Longfor's five-fold greening technique is believed to be no stranger to the peers who do landscape design. With the spirit of "volume immortality" of real estate people in the past ten years, the planting style trend of landscape has been iteratively upgraded to more diverse and more characteristic stylized planting techniques.
From five-fold landscaping to simple geometry, from complex to simple, people find that the overly rigorous and rational planting techniques have lost the healing power of natural intimacy, so in some small spatial scales, a delicate and delicate healing flower landscape style is derived. Modern Orientalism has always been a favorite landscape style, and with the continuous iteration of modern styles, the combination of plants has also presented a matching style. The island cloud planting technique is a common technique of recent mainstream trends, which can be integrated into different spaces and can also be organically mixed with other styles. The planting trend of plants is constantly revised and adjusted with people's understanding of the landscape, the understanding of nature and life, and the style and aesthetics of the garden.
The planting method based on the basic principle of Longfor's early five-fold landscaping is still a choice that cannot be wrong in the conventional space, but the color matching of plants has been optimized to the extreme, and the color level is clearer, forming a more advanced and fresh color matching trend.
Geometric greening, making the space more simple and modern, is another plant landscaping technique developed to the extreme of five-fold plant landscaping, and the aesthetics of planting have also changed from complex to simplified, and plants are regarded as another "hardscape" element, and the technique of defining space has become the mainstream.
However, people's aesthetics are always in a constant cycle, and the overly rational and orderly plant space is easy to make people bored, and the flower healing plant creation technique is a more natural and fresh planting technique that echoes the refined hard landscape of the city. Both styles are more modern and often used in conjunction with each other.
Plant landscaping may not only be the technique of realizing the landscape style but also the style itself, in the oriental Zen landscape style, the plant with cultural imagery and stylized characteristics can be embodied to the extreme.
The island cloud planting method is based on micro-terrain + turtle back ground cover, rich in tonality, large scale of the demonstration area, and various different styles of space can be adapted, which is one of the popular methods by the public in recent years.
In addition, it is worth emphasizing that any design technique, when it develops to the most mature extreme, is inseparable from the integration of techniques. Therefore, in some successful plant landscaping cases, different planting styles need to be mixed. According to different scenes, adapting the space and integrating different planting techniques will not bring chaos, but will make the space more individual and characteristic.
We separately distinguish different plant planting styles, just to discuss the characteristics of different planting techniques more conveniently, but in the actual use of space, more good space needs to be used through a variety of techniques. We don't need to be framed by style and dogma in actual design, but we still need to return to our comprehensive judgment of place.
Today, combined with a large number of cases, I will give you a brief talk about the characteristics of several mainstream plant techniques formed in the market environment of continuous iteration and upgrading, hoping to bring you some inspiration.
The first layer: 7-8 meters high, 20 cm diameter at breast height outline the sky, the second layer: 4-5 high small trees, large shrubs to add layers, the third layer: 2-3 meters high shrubs, the fourth layer: flowers, small shrubs are the most abundant layers, the fifth layer: lawns, ground cover for people to enjoy closely.
Of course, with the continuous development of the landscape, the five-fold landscaping technique has gradually been revised, flowers and small shrubs are more simple, or the way of turtle back planting, the lawn and ground cover layer are also more concise, and the shrub layer and ground cover will be replaced by a long-lasting flower landscape.
Weimar Design Shanghai Company IAM Kishiki Photography
Generally speaking, the five-fold landscaping will develop in a more economical and cost-effective direction from a bird's-eye view, and the ground irrigation line will make the corresponding opening and closing relationship according to the moving line of people, and the key plant groups will also be arranged in some places where the line of sight ends, and other positions will be used as lawns or terrain blank. In fact, this practice can leave more light for the residents on the first floor, not only will not lose the value of the view, but also can avoid complaints from the owners of the second floor after moving in.
Shanghai Landsea New Western Suburbs Bell Golin International (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. Photo by Qiu Ripei
Generally speaking, the greening technique of five-fold landscaping is still commonly used in newly renovated residential communities that do not overemphasize the style, and there is no mistake. Moreover, with the aesthetic iteration of the market, the overall effect is still constantly optimized, and how to combine the moving line, reasonable layout, maximize the plant landscaping, and not invest unnecessary costs is a test of the design team's skills.
Geometric greening, so that the space is more simple and modern, is another plant landscaping technique developed to the extreme of five-fold plant landscaping, just like the development of academic realistic aesthetic oil painting to the extreme, it gave birth to the abstract painting that simplifies the complex in the technique and expresses the spiritual core with simple lines, and the aesthetics of planting have also changed from complex to simplified, so all kinds of plants are regarded as another "hardscape" element, and the techniques used to define the space have become the mainstream.
Tietou Yanlord Riverside City JTL Gatling Beaver Holi - Landscape Photography
Chongqing Dongyuan· Jiangshan Yinyue Chongqing Woya Landscape Planning and Design Co., Ltd. Triangular Architectural Landscape Photography
Guangzhou Zhonghai Lifu Guangmu landscape IAM shore wood photography
The method of using plants to define space needs to combine the spatial scale, the relationship between sight, and reasonably consider the height, texture and color of green plants. The seemingly simple linear planting relationship needs to be sorted out very clearly for the logical relationship of space.
The first opening area of Zhonghai Xing No. 3 Courtyard JTL Gatling
Triangular Prism Landscape Photography
China Resources Land's Dongzha Future Community, Happiness Lane, Lan Daoyoulan, Anmu Photography, Meng Lingjun
Lin'an Blue City Taoli Lakeside Landway Design Nanxi Architectural Space Image
Use scissor greening to enclose the space, making the whole space more green and ecological. Through different shades of greenery, it can also create an exquisite outdoor leisure space. At the same time, the meticulous scissor hedge effect can reflect the long-lasting high-quality maintenance and management ability of the project, which is more classy. Plants can take on different states as they grow naturally, while hard walls tend to fade over time.
Beijing Sunac No.1 Bell Collins International (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. Photography Agency: Existential Architectural Photography
Yongwei Tai and Jing Yuan
易亚源境 YAS DESIGN
ZOOM Architectural Photography
Longfor Hongkong Land Rosewood Lane
Ink landscape triangular prism photography
Chongqing Longhu Meilin Academy of Fine Arts
WTD Weft Diagram Design Prism Photography
Tired of the rigorous linear greening design, the planting in the modern geometric style also includes the plant landscaping full of childlike fun - combined with the fairy tale theme with a sense of picture, spherical, tower-shaped, lollipop... The various geometric shapes abstracted by plants are unique and impressive, both in terms of planting techniques and landscape styles.
Gemdale Malu Jiayue Bay Exhibition Center
LANDAU International Design
Photography by Guo Junjiao, Zhou Yi, Zhi'an
Suzhou Taicang Lake Song Water Stone Design E.LIT Photography
The flower healing system as a whole presents a fresh and romantic atmosphere, mainly based on green tones, mainly for viewing leaves, with plants with strong leaf contrast, dotted with purple, pink or orange flowers, (the more advanced the flower landscape, the more color will not be more, but in a unified tone, with similar color plants) suitable for modern and simple courtyard-style small-scale space, exquisite garden commercial scene.
香港置地 | 元庐 ORIGIN LAND
Landscape of Shanghai Landau
Holi beaver landscape photography
Chengdu Chenjia Jiabai Road WTD weitu design xf photography
Hangzhou Merchants Aida 1872 Exhibition Area
Microwood Design ZZB Photography
Shanghai Putuo Merchants Suhexi Exhibition Area
Microwood Design ZZB Photography
Greentown Jinan Spring Breeze Heart Whisper Guangzhou Bangjing Landscaping Design Co., Ltd. Insect two photography
Chengdu Hongkong Land · Xiyuan Yijing design
Xiamen Lianfa Poly Zhenyue Demonstration Zone Project Z+D Tsukiji Landscape NatureSpace Architectural Photography
| classify | Breed name |
| Ōye plant | Bird of Paradise, Salian, Monstera, Elephant Ear Taroke, Porto Alocasia, Spring Feather, Teacup Taro, Little Angel Cranberry Velvet, Large-leaved Fairy Grass, Old Flying Feather Arrowroot, Large-leaved Silver Spotted Kudzu, Golden Vein Bed, Green Hibiscus, White Rhino Alocasia, Green-backed Velvet Arrowhead |
| fern plant | Guanyinzuo Lotus Fern, Fugui Fern, Jim Fern, Fu's Fern, Silver Thread Fern, Overlord Fern, Wolf Tail Fern, Phoenix Tail Fern, Kidney Fern, etc |
| flowering plant | Ginger lotus, pink flower bud, hosta, shoot dry, Cuban labbe, bicolor wild iris, head flower knotweed, Phnom Penh Ruixiang, pearl dogtooth flower, etc |
| Other foliage plants | Volcanic Ficus Ball, Golden Mountain Palm, Silver Velvet Wild Peony, Silver Leaf Small Barge, Pocket Coconut, Phoenix Green Moss, Curly Cypress, Flower Leaf Duck's Foot Wood, Thousand Leaf Orchid |
© Winter effects just completed in January 2023
© April 2023 Spring Effect
| classify | Breed name |
| Kimoto skeleton | Blue goldenrod, blue butterfly, Phnom Penh Ruixiang, white goldenrod, rosemary |
| Medium-sized herbs | Bicolor wild iris, double-petaled Taima, willow-leaved galaxy flower, sky blue sage, spike flower Pona, purple flower |
| Low dwarf herbaceous plants | Dwarf lily, calamus, the Queen Mother, and the phoenix green moss |
Zhonghai Lifu, Guangzhou / Landscape Design: Guangmu Landscape / Photography Agency: IAM Shore Photography
Whether it is an abstract geometric plant effect or a natural and rich flower effect, in order to give full play to the characteristics of the two, it needs to be appropriately contrasted and used. For example, in the linear hedge of rational order, combined with the delicate and natural flower landscape group, it can not only highlight the sense of order of the hedge, but also highlight the richness and delicacy of the flower landscape.
Hangzhou Qianwan International Community Guangmu Landscape IAM Shore Wood Photography
In the community that needs to strengthen the living atmosphere, the linear hedges that are too rational and rigid are indeed easy to make people feel aesthetic fatigue, and the appropriate combination of flower groups can bring a relaxed and healing garden feeling to the community.
Nantun Residential Tower | Taichung, Taiwan
A good plant collocation is indispensable for mixing and matching, and there is relaxation in the order, natural and exquisite! In the rational order, there are elements of perceptual jumping, which can make the space more vivid.
At present, in the mainstream market, many excellent landscape spaces unconsciously combine modern and rational planting methods with group or flower landscape collocation, which is the result of designers and development teams unconsciously correcting and adjusting the overall effect of the space in combination with customer feedback and space effects.
Ningbo Vanke Pu Shi Wenlan A&N Shangyuan Collection StudioE-ar X TARS
The planting style of the oriental artistic conception is perhaps the most difficult to define, and the combination of plants in each similar style picture has its own uniqueness, as if more is too much, and one less is too little. In general, the planting color of the modern oriental style is relatively uniform, with a small amount of color jumping, and the artistic conception is strengthened by several special symbolic plant shapes, such as pine, maple and other pile-view plants.
China Resources Qingdao Laoshan Yuefu (real scene exhibition area) Didong Planning and Design (Beijing) Co., Ltd
Nancy Photography, Shen Bi Vision
In the space of oriental artistic conception, plants are more like a supplement to hardscape, and by supplementing beautiful plants in each spatial composition, it creates an artistic conception rich in natural rhythm and oriental mood. Dialogue with the various cultural elements of the venue space, and integrate with each other.
Chengdu Sunac Zhihe Yasong Yi'an Design Hino
Zhejiang Longhu Gezhouba · Haoyu Mansion Aoya Design Shanghai Second Institute Project Group 6
Chill Shine丘文三映
Suzhou Sunac Financial Business Plaza Bell Collins International (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd
Qiu Wen Architectural Photography Qiu Ripei
Foshan Sanlong Bay · Poly Tianjun Aoya Guangzhou Company Project Group 2 Yingqi Photography Studio
Hefei Poly Yue Aoya Shanghai Second Hospital Project Group 7 Chill Shine Qiu Wen Sanying
Xiamen Lianfa Jiahe Mansion (Region) LANDAU International Design Nanxi architectural space image
Rugao, Greentown, Qinxiangyuan, Habitat Landscape, DID STUDIO, Huang Yuqi
Island cloud planting is a micro-terrain + turtle back ground cover, with a rich high-level tonality, which is a commonly used planting method in many projects, which can be said to balance the effect and economic cost of a relatively cost-effective way. Whether it is an exquisite demonstration area or a large-scale delivery community, a variety of different styles of space can be adapted, which is one of the popular methods by the public in recent years.
In terms of morphology, it is a dense and compact cloud-like group, sensoryly it is a relaxed natural community of natural ecology, and in the core, it is to achieve a balance between the value and cost of plant effect, and the characteristics of cloud plants are the best way to break the previous "plate form", "multiple greening" and "volume stacking", and strive to optimize the cost of plants at the same time. The so-called "good steel is used on the blade".
China Resources Land's Dongzha Future Community, Happiness Lane, Lan Daoyou, Lan Anmu Photography, Meng Lingjun
Shenyang Runyue Bay Rim Metropolis IAM Shore Wood Photography
Vanke Songyue Phase I Demonstration Area Yi'an Design E-ar x TARS
Light grouping, wide distribution, few large trees. Plant groups as the basic form of planting still need to be retained, but for the group should be miniaturized, the previous seven or eight trees of the "five-fold greening" large group, can be simplified into three or four small and medium-sized trees, or even a single tree with shrubs, especially for the use of large trees, especially DBH of more than 28CM should be cautious. In addition to the central group, it should be used as little as possible, and at the same time, while the group is miniaturized, it should be more dispersed.
Tianjin Zhonghai · Park City UMS Rio Metropolis E-ar x TARS
Changsha Zhonghai · Yuexi Prefecture Pailan Landscape Lin Green Photography
Ningbo New Hope Violin Shangfu (Region) QIDI Habitat Design ZOOM Architectural Photography
Abandon the perimeter and hold the point. Strengthen the optimization of plants with visual concerns or turning angles, weaken the volume and scope of large groups in the past, and achieve a visual level and plant spatial sense that is not weaker than that of traditional techniques through the terrain and the spatial level of the turtle back planting itself. At the same time, the customer's focus is emphasized, such as the entrance door, leisure area, etc., to form effective shade.
Enlarge the lawn and strengthen the proportions. In greening, the most direct embodiment of cost optimization is often achieved through the grass-to-irrigation ratio, and similar to the "golf landscape", it is also similar to the grass-irrigated ratio of golf courses to seek a balance between cost and effect. Through the "island cloud planting", the proportion of grass and irrigation is effectively controlled, and the green area in the area is advocated as turf or economic ground cover.
The micro-topography, combined with the plant landscaping technique of the turtle's back ground cover, can not only form a rich spatial hierarchy to a certain extent, effectively enclose and emphasize the space, but also maintain the overall unity and simplicity of the space, and make a certain unity of the ground cover and the plant varieties in the middle layer, so as to reduce the difficulty of project landing and post-management.
Xi'an Zhonghai Huanyu Tianxia (Region) Chengdu Sekensi Chuangxiang Life Landscape Design Co., Ltd. Photography Agency: Liu Cong
All the way to the "roll", not to look at anything else, only look at the development trend of plant planting, it is not difficult to find that the overall quality of mainstream projects is still improving. Regardless of the market environment, product developers are still constantly seeking innovation and change, iterative progress, and "rolling" out a lot of innovative project effects.
Different spaces have different personalities, plants as an important element in landscape design, its design techniques will directly affect the quality of the space, through the analysis of learning different plant techniques, in the practice of the project, combined with different techniques will make the space tonality more extreme unity.
At any time, with the vision of development, the profession can be done to the extreme, dare to innovate in the profession, no matter what the market is, or can make breakthroughs in one project after another, and iterate to iterate a more product-powerful landscape space.
Note: The article is the original contribution of Lesetta, some of the pictures are from the Internet, thank the original author for his hard work, the copyright belongs to the original author, only for learning and exchange!
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