The document outlines principles and practical elements of landscape design for various types of gardens, including home, educational institutions, and corporate settings. It emphasizes the importance of personal preference, the division of space into public, private, and utility areas, and the selection of appropriate plants to enhance aesthetics and functionality. The document also addresses environmental benefits such as noise reduction and temperature regulation while providing guidance on maintaining gardens in different contexts.

2. Landscape Design for a Home
Garden
 Implemented in a tasteful and artistic way for a
home ground.
Personal preference plays important role

3. Principle areas of a home garden
 If the garden area is sufficiently large, it can
be divided into three areas
 Public area
 Private area
 Utility area
Public area
 Front yard for public
 Backyard for private
 Lateral area for utility

4. Approach or public area
 Drive Way
 Front Yard Lawn

7. Private garden area or living area
 backyard lawn
 children play area
 reading place/
outdoor room

9. OUTDOOR SHOWER

10. Back yard

11. Work or service area
 Utility – Vegetable, fruit and flower garden

13. Vegetable garden

14. Land Accommodation
 Drainage - Slope outwards from the building.
 NE corner raised & SW corner is sloped.
 A discrete usage of lawn, flowering plants, trees
and shrubs
 Large areas – large plants.
 Trees – 10 m
 Shrubs – 3 m
 Annuals & Herbs – 20 to 30 cm
Soft components

15. Soft Component Planting
Size, form, structure, texture, colour and
fragrance
Planting line – in curve gives beauty
Planting area – height of planting in relation
Bold outcurves become high point
High points should not touch the garden corner

16. Hard components
Don’t use large components for small area
Small components will give more attraction
 Drive way, path
 Wall compound
 Fountains, statue, Bird bath
 Permanent flower bed
 Small lily pond
 Children park
Can Use

18. Suitable plants - Trees
• Bauhinia spp.
• Bottle brush (Callistemon lanceolatus),
• Tecoma argentea,
• Mimusops elengi,
• Gliricidia maculata,
• Cochlospermum gossypium,
• Golden shower (Cassia fistula),
• Cassia spectabilis, etc.
are trees suitable for planting in home grounds.

22. Flowering annuals
Antirrhinum
Stocks
Pansy
Dahlia
Chrysanthemum
Marigold
Sweet Alyssum
Phlox
Pinks (Dianthus)
Verbena

23. Pelargoniums
Michaelmas daisy
Canna
Mirabilis jalaba
Portulaca
Solidago
Canadensis
Vinca rosea
Perennial verbena

24. Shrubs
Many of the dwarf and medium shrubs can be
grown:
• Tabarnaemontana coronaria
• Bauhinia tomentosa
• Jasminum spp.
• Duranta plumerii
• Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
• Tithonia diversifolia

30. Night Mode

31. Decorate the home garden

32. U can …

33. Home garden Layout

34. Landscape Design for a Educational
institute
Landscaping not only enhances beauty and
appearance but also inculcates aesthetic sense
to younger generations.

36. Aim’s
 To create a barrier against noise, storm and dust and
to provide shade
 Necessary to screen some ugly places with the help
of plants

39.  Plantation will help keep down severe heat and cold.
 Front - planted with medium sized flowering trees for
beauty.
 Trees should not completely obstruct the view of the
building from outside.
 Shrubs play an important part in the school landscaping.
 Border planting of shrubbery on large grounds or filling
the gaps between the trees and lawns.
 Shrub boarder around playgrounds require minimum
maintenance and is effective than hedge.

40. Cont.…
 Flower beds - seasonal ones should not be
preferred.
 A lawn looks nice in an educational institute, but it is
difficult to maintain.
 A bougainvillea trained over the wall of the building
can change the whole look.
 Different trees, shrubs, flowering annuals, etc. may
also be properly labeled to enable students learn
their names and develop knowledge

41. • Relaxation
• Enjoyable
• Aesthetic Sense
• Playful

42. Inside view

43. School yard - lawn

44. TNAU

45. PKM 2013

50. Landscape Design for corporate

51. GOOGLE HEAD OFFICE

52. Principles of Corporate garden design
 Improve the look of the building.
 Maintain microclimate.
 Attract the customers.
 Public use and decorative purpose.
 Not hide the design of the building.
 Owners comfort and convenience.
 Simplicity in design & Variety in a garden.
 Garden full of surprise
 Long and straight garden paths should be avoided.
 Colour and contrast
 Should not hide the Vista

53. Soft Components
 Area, Climate, labour,
budget
Common and easy
 Lawn,
 Shrubberies,
 Perennials,
 Trees,
 Container garden,
 Hedge and borders,
Hard components
 Should fit in the area
Commons
Drive way & Path
Outer walls
Car parking
Sitting area
Fountain & Lightings
Rockery in any corner
Screens
Pergolas

54. Bougainvillea spp.

55. Maintain microclimate

57. Bougainvillea on
an arbour

62. Vertical Gardening

64.  Need of plants in educational institutes???
 Education became business
 Students became commodities
 Need of plants in corporates???
 For transformation of robotic Homo sapiens
ssp. sapiens to normal Homo sapiens ssp.
sapiens

65. Thank you….