Study On Urban Plant Landscape Of Lingnan

Based on an extensive literature about the Lingnan plants, gardens and parks and combining with the on-the-spot investigation, the Lingnan urban plant landscape is systematically studied.The environmental and social impacts on the urban plant landscape of Lingnan are analyzed. The environmental factors have great impact on the urban plant landscape, such as the climate, which is an important determinant of the species and the types of the plants. The local vegetation and the natural plant community, including the subtropical evergreen-broadleafed forestry, the subtropical monsoon evergreen-broadleafed forestry, the seasonal tropical rain forestry and the tropical rain forestry ,are good examples for the planting design. The local trade, the Lingnan culture and the plant-introducing activities have also influenced the establishment and development of the Lingnan plant landscape.Based on an extensive literature, ancient books and poems upon the gardens and plants, the plant landscape of Lingnan classical gardens was studied according to historical period. After extensive study of the ancient book, GungdongXin Yu, and the on-the-spot investigation of the four existed Lingnan Classical Gardens of late Qing Dynasty, the plant landscape of Ming and Qing dynasties was analyzed in detail. Some of the Eight Attractions in Guangzhou related to plant landscape were also described.In this paper, the plant landscape in modern parks, residential area and the urban roads were systematically analyzed based on the fieldwork. According to the analysis, there are kinds of different plant landscape in the parks, such as the colorful ground-cover, the bright and spectrum color of the plant flower, the leavesand the bamboo stalk, the hedges and the topiary, the waterside plant and the landscape of the ficus and the palms, which have almost been of all the types of the plant landscape of Lingnan. In the residential area, different kinds of shade-tolerant plants are grown on the ground floor of the buildings built on stilts. The palms are widely used in order to build up the tropical atmosphere in the residential area. As to the urban road greenbelt, the large colorful belt, the hedge and topiary plant landscape and the palms are widely used in it. As the environment-protection of the city is getting more and more important, the way of planting to learn from natural plant communities are used more often.The relationship of the plant landscape between the ancient and the modern Lingnan gardens and the problems of the plant landscape of modern Lingnan gardens are analyzed. Some suggestions on how to solve these problems were also proposed.