Making a garden or other piece of land more attractive by altering the existing design or adding ornamental features.

1. S24 TRAINING SERIES SESSION - 3
Prepared by: Uvais Pulisseri
lAndscAping (theory)

2. Making a garden or other piece of land more
attractive by altering the existing design or adding
ornamental features.
Activities that modify
the visible features of
an area of land

3. COMPONENTS
A. LIVING ELEMENTS
FLORA & FAUNA
B. NON LIVING ELEMENTS
ROCKS, LANDFORMS …
C. ABSTRACT ELEMENTS
WEATHER, LIGHTING …

4. Living elements, such as flora or fauna
commonly called
gardening, the art
and craft of growing
plants with a goal of
creating a beauty
within the
landscape.

5. Natural elements
Landforms
Terrain shape
Bodies of water

6. C - Abstract elements
Weather
lighting conditions.

7. Expertise required:
Horticulture
artistic design.

8. Types/specialties
 Based on nature – Hardscape & Softscape
 Based on area – buildings, avenues, parks, public
spaces, sports fields …
 Based on part of buildings – indoor and outdoor

9. Hardscape
non living portion of the landscape
Patios
Pergolas
Pathways
pools and retaining walls
Trek paths
Benches
Arbors etc

10. Softscape
covers all the plant material.

11. TYPES OF LANSCAPES
Commercial/residential
buildings
Avenue/Roadsides
Parks/Public areas
Sports fields/courses
Green roofs/green
buildings

12. Commercial/residential buildings

13. Avenue/Roadsides

14. Parks/Publicareas

15. Sports fields/courses

16. Based on part of buildings
Outdoor
Indoor

17. Specialist services in landscape
Designers/Architects
Installation/Development
Maintenance

18. Softscaping
Basic inputs:
Growth medium/substrate
Plants
Fertilizers/soil conditioners
Living elements, such as flora or fauna that forms part of landscaping.

19. Plant types
Based on growth/canopy
Based on light requirement
Based on aesthetic approach
Based on medium

20. Based on growth/canopy
Trees
 Various species of plumeria, ficus, gulmohar, lagerstroemia, caeselpinia, nerium,
azadiracta, melia,
Palms
 Royal palms, fox tail palm, king palm, chamedorea, kentia, red palm, raphis palm
Hedge plants
 Bamboo, Duranta, plumbago, bougainvillea, Euphorbia
Creepers/climbers
 Cats claw creeper, thunbergia, ipomea, antigonon, tristellateia, petrea, quisqualis
Ground covers
 Peanut creeper, rhoeho, lantana, hemi graphis, synchonium, ferns

21. AVANUE TREES

22. PLUMERIA

23. FICUS

24. GULMOHAR

25. LAGERRSTROEMIA

26. CAESALPINIA

27. NERIUM

28. AZADIRACHTA

29. MELIA DUBIA

30. PALMS

31. ROYAL
PALM

32. FOX
TAIL
PALM

33. CHAMADOREA
PALM

34. KENTIA PALM

35. RAPHIS
PALM

36. HEDGES

37. DURANTA

38. PHYLLANTHUS

39. BAMBOO
HEDGE

40. SCHEFLERA

41. PLUMBAGO