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Planting design
Design use of plants, Planting design types,
Planting design is the art of composing plants to create a
design. This is usually an aspect of garden design, which
includes paving design, landform design, water features and the
design of vertical and horizontal structures. The following
brief historical summary illustrates some different approaches
to planting design. It is arranged in reverse chronological
order, with key dates, working back from the present day.
Naturalistic Planting Design c2000
Around the turn of the twentieth century there was a renewed
enthusiasm for looking at all the different ways in which plants
are arranged in nature. This led to a particular interest in
wildflower meadows and drifts of tall grasses intermixed with
herbaceous plants. See review of Piet Oudolf's Planting Design:
Gardens in Time and Space. and see list of 100 Top Plants to
Avoid for Amenity Landscapes.
Abstract Planting Design c1950
The artistic approach to planting developed into the idea of
treating a bed of plants like a box of paints and arranging them
according to the principles of abstract design (Cubism). See
also Abstact Style of garden design.
Arts and Crafts Planting Design c1900
The gardenesque idea was developed by using aesthetic principles
drawn from the fine arts combined with a craftsmanship approach
to fine workmanship. See also Arts and Crafts style of garden
design and the online text of Gertrude Jekyll Colour schemes for
the flower garden. (+ Jekyll plant list)
Gardenesque Planting Design c1850
This idea was based on the use of exotic (ie imported) plants in
compositional arrangements inspired by natural groupings of
plants. See also Gardenesque and Picturesque style of garden
design
Picturesque Planting Design c1800
An entirely new approach to planting design developed in
eighteenth century England: the idea of planting in natural
groups - inspired, initially, by the arrangement of planting in
landscape painting. See also of garden design. See also
Gardenesque and Picturesque style of garden design
Baroque Planting Design c1700
Baroque planting developed from renaissance practice but more
elaborate and purely ornamental. Intricate parterre patterns
replaced simple knot gardens. See also Baroque style of garden
design
Renaissance Planting Design c1600
Renaissance designers hoped to re-create Roman gardens - but,
having less evidence than us about the Roman style of planting
design, assumed they had made knot gardens. Early renaissance
planting was of mixed fruit and flowers bounded by low hedges.
Later renaissance planting was more determinedly ornamental. See
also Renaissance style of garden design.
Mughal Planting Design c 1600
The Mughal gardens of India were planted as flowering orchards.
See Villiers Stuart on Mughal planting design
Medieval Planting Design c1200
Tthere was a reversion to the pre-Roman practice of intermixing
culinary and medicinal plants with some flowers See also
Medieval garden design
Planting design in Ancient Rome c100
The Romans were perhaps the earliest civilization to plant
gardens with plants with a primarily ornamental role. See also
Courtyard style of garden design in Rome
Planting design in Ancient Persia c500BCE
Little information is available but it seems probable that
garden planting was, as in Egypt and Mesopotamia, of intermixed
flowering and fruiting plants. See also Paradise style of garden
design
Planting design in Ancient India c500BCE
Vedic texts mention the planting of flowering and fruiting trees
and shrubs. There does not seem to have been any planting of
herbaceous plants.
Planting design in Ancient Egypt c1500BCE
There is good evidence from tomb paintings and from papyrus
texts to show that flowering and fruiting woody and herbaceous
plants were intermixed. See also Egyptian domestic style of
garden design
Planting design in Ancient Mesopotamia c2000BCE
Bas reliefs and cunieform scripts indicate that planting was
mainly of fruit and vegetables, with some flowering plants.
Read more: http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden_design/planting_design_guide#ixzz1EEC0YhOY
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