basic of planting design

1. SBL 2183 / SBEL 2562 PLANTING
TECHNOLOGY 1
Sem02-2012/2013
Planting Design
MUHAMMAD NAZRIN B SHAHROM
NOOR ZULIKA BT DIN YATI
NADIA SHAFURA BT MOKHTAR
JUHANA RAIHAN BT JAMALUDIN
RAIHAN SUHAIMI
Types of Planting Design
AB100013
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2. PLANTS CATEGORIES

3. PLANT CATEGORIES
GROUNDCOVER
Low Planting &
below knee height
planting.
SHRUBS
Knee to Eye Level
Planting above eye
level.
TREES
Small, medium and
large tree planting
(Above eye level)
Perennials, grasses, bulbs, annuals

4. Using Agave americana for
visual interest.
Encelia california OR
Coast Sunflower is not
just a shrub. It also can
give layering affect to
garden.
Ixora red dwarf can create
the visual perimeter to
help frame the garden.
Some species such as
Ophiopogon
planiscapus or ‘kucai’ is
used as ground cover
plants.
VINES
•Vines serve many purposes in the
garden.
• The most popular application is to
'green' up a wall or fence so as to
cover unsightly construction.

5. GROUNDCOVER
Low Planting & Below Knee
Height Planting

6. Axonopus compressus
Barrenwort Epimedium sp.
Cynodon dactylon
Phyllantus myrtifolius
GROUNDCOVER
Low Planting & Below Knee
Height Planting
Liriope spicata
Pogonatherum crinitum
Tradescantia spathacea
“dwaft”
Arachis pintoi

7. GROUNCOVER
UTM B12 WALKWAY
Primary spatial role is as ‘floor’ that allows both free vision in
movement

8. GROUNCOVER
UTM TRAIL
Provide a pedestrian circulation surface (less hard-wearing than a pavement) .
Tolerant species include many of the turf grasses when grazed or mown regularly,
form surfaces suitable for relaxing, walking, play, sport, cycling and occasional
vehicles

9. GROUNCOVER
TROPICAL GARDEN
A uniform carpet of mown grass or ground-hugging, smooth textured can be used to enhance
the visual effect of ground modeling by closely following the contours.

10. GROUNCOVER
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
Shrubs and herbaceous plants that form a higher canopy but still below
knee height have further possibilities in spatial design.

11. SHRUB
Below Knee High

12. Cuphea hyssopifolia
Tradescantia spathacea
‘dwarf’
Turnera hybrid
Pseuderanthemum
laxiflorum
Recommendation
SHRUB
Below Knee
High
Osmoxylon lineare
Habranthus gracilifolius
Hippeastrum hybrid
Otacanthus caeruleus
Ixeris chinensis
Pandanus pygmaeus
Solenostemon
scutellarioides

13. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
Two-dimensional pattern. Carpets of foliage, used
alone or combined with boulders, gravel and paving
materials, form a spread or mix of colour, texture and
pattern across the ground surface.
Low planting can, when used by
itself, form a visual platform or
ground plane like carpeting
plants
Tradescantia spathacea
‘dwarf’
TROPICAL GARDEN
UTM ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
Ttradescantia spathacea ‘dwarf
Pandanus pygmaeus

14. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
It can be combined with taller herbaceous species,
shrubs or
trees growing up through it.
TROPICAL GARDEN
UTM ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
This situation is like a foundation or wash in painting) or
'ground‘
against which the 'figure' is to be seen. In this way, low
planting
can give a common ground or platform that unifies other
planting

15. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
By clothing new and old alike, climbers can give a sense of
belonging and maturity to new structures or earthworks
that have been inserted in an established landscape .
Vallaris glabra
DEWAN SULTAN ISMAIL UTM
Some will trail down
Trailers and climbers can be planted
walls and banks and
in form a continuous mat of foliage
Form hanging curtains over vertical and horizontal
surfaces.

16. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
Trailers and climbers can be planted in form a continuous
mat of foliage over vertical and horizontal surfaces.
BORROW IMAGE
Ficus pumila

17. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
Foliage will cascade down banks and walls and flow over
flatter ground; masking the angles between vertical,
horizontal and inclined planes.
DEWAN SULTAN ISMAIL UTM

18. SHRUBS BELOW KNEE HIGH…
Low planting has an essential role at the edges between hard
and soft landscape and between soft landscape areas of
differing uses.

19. SHRUB
Knee To Eye Level
Planting
(Medium Height Planting)

20. PLANT RECOMMENDATION
Arisarum proboscideum
Excoecaria cochinchinensis
Alpinia zerumbet
Dracena colorama
Polyscias filicifolia
Alpinia Purpurata
Acalypha siamensis
Acalypha siamensis
java white
Caesalpinia pulcherrima

21. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
Planting that grows to between knee height and
eye level can have a similar design role to a low
wall, fence or rail.
It becomes a barrier to movement and can be
used to limit access but allow views

22. Shrub become a barrier to
create movement and limit
access in areas that are not
welcome

23. Shrub create circulation
dan guide people to walk

25. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
It can separate areas for safety
reasons keeping people or vehicles
away from sleep slopes, water or
from each other.

26. Shrub become a barrier to
create safety reason for
people.

27. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
When Tall shrub need room to spread laterally without
encroaching on circulation space.
Low planting can provide a groundcover over which the
taller species extend freely without the need for
frequent cutting back or shaping.

28. Natural shrub provides
counterbalance flooring for tall
trees

29. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
It can separate areas for safety reasons
keeping people or vehicles away from sleep
slopes, water or from each other.
If this groundcover spreads over pavement or
grass some incidental or natural 'pruning' will
result from trampling.
Where traffic is light, occasional trimming is
needed.

30. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
It can be used
to
acknowledge
and
emphasize
desire lines or
pathways
where
visual
enclosure
is
not wanted

31. Shrub cans provide privacy area for
the building

32. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
It can be used to maintain a distance
between people and buildings and other
private areas in this way giving privacy
while not growing above window sill level
and reducing light.
It can define a building area or
domain, like
a low wall, fence or
hedge, but less formally.

33. Shrub cans provide privacy to building
with distance between the private
space of building with outer space

34. KNEE TO EYE LEVEL PLANTING…
A mass or group of medium foliage fringing or
near a building or other structure can visually
anchor it to the ground and link it to the
surrounding landscape.
This is particularly
important when a
building
or
other
structure
is
introduced
into
a
landscape
characterized
by
generous
existing
vegetation.

35. Shrub cans provide privacy to building
with distance between the private
space of building with outer space

36. TALL SHRUBS
Above Eye Level
Planting

37. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
What is it?
In the human scale
landscape of parks,
gardens,
courtyards) ,streets
and playgrounds tall
planting gives
privacy and shelter
and screens
intrusions like car
parking, service
areas and refuse
bins.

38. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
Yucca gloriosa
(palm lily)
licuala spinosa
(mangrove
fan palm)
TASIK UTM
TASIK UTM
TASIK UTM
Shrubs and small trees with a canopy extending above eye
level form a visual and physical barrier.
Planting taller than eye level forms both a physical and visual
barrier.

39. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
bauhinia purpurea
(butterfly-tree)
dalbergia oliveri
(tamalan tree)
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING UTM
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING UTM
So tall planting with a close knit canopy can LIKE a wall or
fence-separate, enclose, screen and shelter on a smaller
scale than is possible with larger tree planting.
It can give privacy and shelter.

40. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
thysanolaena
latifolia
(rumput buloh)
thalia dealbata
(water canna)
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING UTM
Like a wall or fence, tall planting can make a backcloth to
ornamental planting such as herbaceous borders and
display beds. Example: Trimmed Hedges
Can provide a backcloth for display planting.

41. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
pereskia bleo
(rose cactus)
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
TASIK UTM
TASIK UTM
Tall Planting visual mass is similar to small buildings.
Therefore, it can be used to balance areas of their masonry
or cladding.
Can accompany smaller buildings.

42. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
Heliconia
indica striata
( lobsterclaws)
TASIK UTM
TASIK UTM
An isolated pair of tall shrubs or a gap in mass planting creates a
frame. It can frame a whole vista or attract attention to a focus or
landmark. This kind of arrangement can focuses attention and also
invites exploration. Like an arch or gateway, it suggests a different
place to be discovered.
Can frame a vista or landmark.

43. ABOVE EYE LEVEL (Tall Shrub) PLANTING…
TYPE OF TALL SHRUB PLANTING
tapeinochilus
ananassae
(giant soiral
ginger)
TASIK UTM
rhapis multifida
(finger palm)
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING UTM
When planted as individuals or small groups, choice tall
shrubs have the size and presence to act as specimens and
a feature or visual focus within a human scale landscape.
Can make a specimen or visual focus.

44. TREE

45. TREE PLANTING
What is it?
• The sizes of trees are of the same order of
magnitude as buildings,
roads, bridges and
smaller industrial developments.
• Tree planting can be used for screening,
separating, sheltering, enclosing, accompanying
and complementing these larger structures.
• When tree species grow freely to produce a clear
main stem or bole with their canopies above
head height they leave the space
above the
ground open except for the vertical pillars of their
boles.

46. TREE PLANTING
• Trees can
element.
offer a quite different type of spatial
• Mature heights of trees range from about 5-40
metres
• For design purposes it is good to divide trees into:
Small:
Medium:
Tall:
5-10 metres (mature height)
10-20 metres (mature height)
20 metres (mature height)

47. SMALL TREE
PLANTING
Above Eye Level
5 meter

48. SMALL TREE PLANTING…
Small tree add scale
plantings
and
can
surrounding landscape
to mixed
link
to
Mature Size Small Trees function:
to create, define, divide large spaces
into smaller planting zones
Small trees add vertical elements to
a composition

49. MEDIUM TREE
PLANTING
10-15 meter

50. MEDIUM TREE PLANTING…
Medium trees can create spaces that
contain smaller buildings and therefore
have a greater effect on the spatial
structure of urban landscape.
Medium and tall tree planting can play a
crucial role In integrating massive
industrial buildings, like power stations,
into the surrounding landscape.

51. TALL TREE PLANTING
Above 20 meter

52. PLANT RECOMMENDATION (high tree)
Peltophorum pterocarpum
/ batai
Arfeuillea arborescens /
hop tree
Brassia actinophylla /
Umbrella Tree
Citharexylum spinosum /
fiddle wood
Callistemon lanceolatus /
bottlebrush

53. Acacia auriculiformis /
earleaf acacia
Calophyllum ionphyllum /
penanga laut
Acacia cincinnata /
Daintree wattle
Adenanthera pavonina /
saga tree
Cananga odorata /
ylang- ylang; kenanga
Jacaranda obtusifolia /
jacaranda

54. TALL TREE PLANTING…
Tall trees are less common in urban areas
because of the space they demand.
Even though naturally tall growing species are
often planted in streets and gardens only to be
cut or pruned once they begin to shade or
dominate nearby buildings.
The size of trees over about 20 metres enables
them to form the part of the primary spatial
structure of streets, squares and parks.
In the rural landscape large trees create a largescale framework.

55. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN FORM A BUFFER BETWEEN INCOMPATIBLE ACTIVITIES
Asplenium nidus
(pokok paku langsuir)
Tabebuia pentaphylla
(tecoma tree)
Epipremnum aureum
(devil’s ivy)
This is a vital landscape role because the low-level clutter is often the most
disturbing part of large-scale industry. The ability of trees to screen and
obscure views from further away than shrub planting can be made use of to
manipulate views as the observer moves through the landscape.

56. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN SCREEN AND SEPARATE LARGER BUILDINGS
Calyophylum spruceanum
(mulateiro)
Dillenia grandifolia
(simpuh air (daun merah))
Caladium
Davallia denticulata
(Pokok Keladi) (rabbit’s food fern)
Tree belts and plantations enveloping and extending outwards from such
sites provide screening of near distance views.
From greater distances. although they cannot hide structures on the scale of
cooling towers or turbine houses they can visually anchor them to their
supporting landscape and screen the lower level ancillary development,
temporary buildings and car parks.

57. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN INTEGRATE THE LARGEST STRUCTURES
Cocos nucifera
(pokok kelapa)
Pritchardia pacifica
(fiji fan palm)
Areca catechu
(pokok pinang)
Carefully located gaps in planting open up vistas or frame a focus at just the
light moment. Like a window or a mind on what is beyond it.
A single specimen or small group of trees, on the other hand, itself acts as a
focus. Being an isolated object, it occupies a small area in our field of vision
and OUT eye lends to rest on it.

58. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN FRAME AND EMPHASIZE LANDMARKS
Carefully located gaps in planting open up vistas or frame a focus at just the
light moment. Like a window or a mind on what is beyond it.
A single specimen or small group of trees, on the other hand, itself acts as a
focus. Being an isolated object, it occupies a small area in our field of vision
and OUT eye lends to rest on it.

59. TALL TREE PLANTING…
A SINGLE LARGE TREE CAN BE A LANDMARK
AND MEETING PLACE
A tree with a
distinctive feature
such as attractive
unique colour or
picturesque habit will
make a particularly
notable focus.
Large tree specimens
or groups have this
effect at some
distance and so
provide foci and
landmarks in the
larger-scale rural
landscape.
Pterocarpus indicus
(pokok angsana)

60. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN COMPLEMENT BUILDING FORMS

61. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN INTEGRATE UNRELATED BUILDING STYLES

62. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN GIVE VERTICAL CONTAINMENT TO
ROUTEWAYS

63. TALL TREE PLANTING…
TREE CLUMPS AND WOODLAND CAN EMPHASIZE
TOPOGRAPHY

64. TALL TREE PLANTING…
OR DISGUISE INSENTIVE EARTHWORKS
Tabebuia pentaphylla
(tecoma tree)
Axonopus compressus
(cow grass)

65. TALL TREE PLANTING…
CAN CREATE DISTINCTIVE WOODLAND
ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THEIR CANOPY

66. THANKS…
SBL 2183 / SBEL 2562 PLANTING
TECHNOLOGY 1
Sem02-2012/2013
Planting Design
MUHAMMAD NAZRIN B SHAHROM
NOOR ZULIKA BT DIN YATI
NADIA SHAFURA BT MOKHTAR
JUHANA RAIHAN BT JAMALUDIN
RAIHAN SUHAIMI
Types of Planting Design
AB100013
B11BE0046
B11BE0042
B11BE0017
B11BE0058