Garden Plants and Their Types
For netizens who are concerned, let's elaborate on the types of garden plants and related knowledge about commonly used tree species for garden greening. Let's get to know more about it together below.
Garden greening tree species are divided into several major categories: trees (large trees, medium trees, flowering trees), shrub seedlings, shaping types, aquatic plants, seasonal cup seedlings and flowers, vines, bamboo species, etc. The planting steps also follow from large to small, with large tree species planted first, from high to low. Here are several commonly used major categories and their detailed varieties.
I. The Main Significance of Planting Garden Greening Tree Species.
Air Purification
Most of the time when designing seedling varieties, the purification effect on the environment and air is considered, such as planting species like crape myrtle, catalpa, and pistacia, which are beneficial for our environmental purification, especially in urban areas with heavy traffic and air pollution. Roadside plants mainly consider their ability to absorb dust, and magnolia grandiflora is very good at this; its leaves can absorb most of the dust in the air.
Color Coordination for Visual Aesthetics
When planting garden greening trees, color coordination is also considered, with distinct levels of height, adding a lot of color and vitality to our lives. Especially in park and square greening, colored-leaf plants are well coordinated. Commonly used are perennial flower pot plants, most of which are greenhouse-grown and can reach a full bloom state before leaving the nursery, resulting in a better beautification effect.
II. Detailed Classification of Commonly Used Garden Greening Tree Species
Trees
Trees can be subdivided into large trees: catalpa, camphor tree, ginkgo, Chinese scholar tree, pistacia, and schisandra, which belong to the category of larger volume and height, with older tree ages. Most large trees are mature seedlings that are cultivated and have a high survival rate after transplanting. Medium trees include some flowering trees, with moderate volume and height. Most of them can be planted with wild seedlings that can survive, such as magnolia grandiflora, osmanthus, crape myrtle, white magnolia, cherry blossom, schisandra, phoebe, cinnamon, weeping cherry, and laughing orchid. These include flowering species, evergreen trees, and deciduous trees. There are more than a hundred types of medium trees, and not all will be introduced here. The ones mentioned are commonly used tree species.
Shaped Ball Types
Most colored-leaf shrubs will have their overall shape pruned and shaped when mature, with ball shapes being common. Many ball-shaped shrubs are pruned and cultivated from seedlings. Those with a canopy diameter over 200 cm require continuous pruning for more than three years. Common varieties include: osmanthus ball, red-leaf photinia ball, holly ball, dwarf privet ball, red-leaf photinia, red flowering rosewood ball, and boxwood ball. Basically, all shrub varieties can be pruned into ball shapes, with dense branches and leaves, making them ideal for shaping into ball plants.
Bamboo Species
Generally, landscape bamboo is only planted in parks and squares. Compared to trees and ball-shaped plants, the annual usage of bamboo is relatively low, and only a few residential areas will plant them, but not many. Common varieties include: qinxi bamboo, which is used in larger parks, as well as black bamboo, purple bamboo, foxtail bamboo, golden bamboo, and luohan bamboo, which are planted in smaller areas.
Shrub Seedlings
Basically, except for roads that do not require color coordination and only plant trees, some roads will plant more colored-leaf plants. Areas such as squares, parks, residential areas, and villas will use shrub seedlings, mainly for low-level planting to create distinct layers. Their characteristics include dense foliage, short stature, and colorful leaves. Common varieties include: king's holly, golden holly, red-leaf photinia, red flowering rosewood, osmanthus,十大功劳, variegated holly, thousand-layer gold, octopus plant, and schefflera. There are also more than a hundred commonly used shrub seedling varieties, with red, yellow, golden, and green leaves.
Flowers and Lawns
Actually, these two types do not belong to garden greening trees but to flowering plants and herbaceous flowers. Each flower has different colors and shapes. Nowadays, seasonal flowers are also different from those of previous years, especially those mass-produced in greenhouses, most of which can be propagated all year round and achieve a full bloom state before leaving the nursery. Common varieties include: western azalea, Chinese aster, scarlet sage, Chinese primrose, marigold, cinnamon, golden daisy, and Chinese rose. The varieties of herbaceous plant lawns are relatively few, divided into evergreen and semi-evergreen varieties, such as Taiwan No. 2, mixed草坪, golden coin, fine grass lawn, Bermuda grass, Manila grass,剪股颖, and Japanese kyllinga.
The above introduction to the types of garden plants and the recommendation of commonly used tree species for garden greening is for everyone to learn and understand!