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Scotland's Native Trees and Shrubs
Designs from nature
If the landscape design objective is to create a new landscape of a similar character to the existing, it is this level of observation and attention to detail in the design that distinguishes good design from run-of-the-mill commercial design. The use of repetitive formula-driven planting designs or standard 'off the peg' solutions that are convenient and cheap to design and specify, in reality seldom appear with natural vegetation characteristics. Good composition and planting design results from using the right plants and arranging them in the right way. Morecambe illustrated this principle when he said to Wise, after being accused of playing the wrong notes on the piano, 'I'm playing the right notes but not necessarily in the right order'.
Simplicity can be the greatest form of inspiration.
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It is accepted that the natural characteristics of birch are worth simulating for their architectural effect and to bring nature into the city. Could other species be used in this way to equally good effect? | Formula-driven planting designs may be convenient and cheap to specify and simple to plant but they can create an artificial appearance where a more natural one would be better. |
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