Landscaping involves designing and maintaining outdoor spaces through gardening techniques. It includes shaping landforms, choosing plants, and considering environmental factors. The goal is to improve aesthetics and the environment through planting trees, managing soils, and designing parks and gardens. Landscape architecture applies these techniques on a larger scale to plan public and urban spaces. Benefits include increasing property values, reducing noise and erosion, and providing social and wellness benefits through greenery and natural spaces. Proper landscaping considers local conditions, harmony, and purpose.

1. Landscaping

2. What is landscaping?
• Landscape - A landscape may be defined as any area, either big or small, on which it is possible or
desirable to mould a view or a design.
• Gardening- knowledge of plants, soils, land topography and local environmental conditions.
• Gardening which was only an art and science in the earlier days
• Gardening - improving and conserving the environment - the concept of landscaping and gardening
is changing - the requirement is also growing rapidly
• Ornamental gardening and landscaping is a multi-faceted industry encompassing various activities
such as propagating and rearing ornamental plants, landscaping, production of growing media, pots
and other accessories, etc., generating huge employment opportunities and simultaneously
promoting activities that would improve the environment

3. Landscape gardening/Landscape architecture
• application of garden forms, methods and materials with a view to
improve the landscape.
• "The art and science of analysis, planning, design, management, preservation and
rehabilitation of the land. This includes site planning, garden design,
environmental restoration, town or urban planning, park and recreation
planning, regional planning and historic preservation."
• It is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-
behavioral and/or aesthetic outcomes

4. • It involves the systematic investigation - existing social, ecological and geological
conditions and processes in the landscape and the design of interventions that will
produce the desired outcome.
• A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a Landscape Architect
• Scope- Urban design; Site planning; Town or urban planning; Environmental
restoration; Parks and recreation planning; Visual resource management; green
infrastructure planning and provision; Private estate and residence landscape master
planning and design.
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5. Benefits of landscape gardening
Environmental
• Replenishing O2 supply
• Preventing soil erosion
• Cooling buildings and
neighborhoods
• Filtering dust
• Buffering noise
Social and Aesthetic benefits
• Improving property value
• Providing a sense of
community
• Fostering sense of well-
being
• Providing aesthetically
pleasing environment
✔ real estate value of any property goes up if it has a compound properly landscaped and planted with trees

6. Bio-aesthetic planting- Prof. Lancelot Hogben
• proper utilization of the available flora and fauna in the beautification
of the surroundings.
• Dr M.S. Randhawa and Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret.
• is to plant ornamental flowering trees all along the roads, in parks,
house compounds, public places
• to develop national parks where non-carnivorous animals and
beautiful birds will coexist with beautiful flora
• Bio-aesthetic planning should be hand in hand with town planning

7. • The roads in town and cities should be broad, planted with flowering
and shade trees, and there should be spacious parks along with
conservatories for harmless animals and birds.
• older congested cities and towns also should be retrieved from their
present state by bio-aesthetic planning
• acquire by compulsion the ugly areas of the towns in some centrally
located pockets and to convert them into parks
• garden suburbs

8. Important considerations of gardening
1. A garden must be one’s own creation and not an imitation, giving
due
consideration to the local environment.
2. Overcrowding of the plants should be avoided.
3. Take advantage of natural topography while designing garden
4. Perfect harmony of different components is the essence in
landscape gardening.
5. Before planning a design one must be sure for what purpose the
garden is – utility or beauty or both.