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Landscape design
The art of arranging or modifying the features of a yard or an urban area for architectural or aesthetic purposes.
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Maintainability
Design; Landscape design
Process of making every individual segment of a landscape as easy to care for as possible. A maintainable landscape requires less labor, fewer supplies, and is less expensive to care for.
Mass plantings
Design; Landscape design
Plantings where many plants of the same species are used to fill an area. Mass plantings are used as connexions between other planting groups or as groundcovers.
Master plan
Design; Landscape design
A CAD rendering of ALL of the proposed Hardscape, Softscape, and water feature elements together with inset photos of the clients' preferences of Design Elements. This plan depicts all features and ...
Micro-manage
Design; Landscape design
Developing and maintaining a landscape without considering the effects one decision has upon another. This type of management will affect the long term sustainability of the landscape and usually ...
Photographic view
Design; Landscape design
The way in which we see a landscape or an area if we are standing and looking at it at ground level. Photographic view drawings on a plan help the client visualise how the installed landscape will ...
Plan view or plan view drawings
Design; Landscape design
Bird's eye view of the area being designed. The completed landscape design is done in plan view.
Plant groupings
Design; Landscape design
Plant groupings provide a representation of the types of plants that will occupy an area once the landscape design is completed. A plant grouping might show a shrub border between properties, or it ...
