Nanjing Area Climbers Garden Application

Climbing plants, a new-developed landscape plant, has broad perspectives for application in beautifying the city. Through the investigation and observation of the evergreen climbing plants in the Nanjing area, the author of the thesis selects such 6 evergreen climbing plants with great potential for ornamental development as follows: Trachelospermum jasminoides, Hedera helix, Euonymus fortunei, Kadsura longipedunculata, Mucuna paohwashanica, Ficus pumila. During the more than two-year experiment of cultivating and nursing the 6 species, their biological features and ornamental values had been observed and taken down carefully. In order to provide theoretical support for applying evergreen climbers in the region of Nanjing or even the north to it in the future, the experiments focus on quantitative analysis of the coldness resistance, the shade tolerance, the tolerance to drought and hotness, the growing length and rate, and the climbing abilities of the mentioned 6 climbers. The research procedures and results are as follows:I. Survey of the resources of evergreen climbers in Nanjing region, including the detailed statistical analysis of the 6 evergreen species and careful observation of their wild quantities and growing conditions.II. The experiments of introducing, cultivating and nursing. 6 species are introduced and cultivated in the experimental samples of the author and their phonological characteristics; growth rate and climbing features are carefully observed.m. On the basis of the quantitative analysis of the experiments results both outside and inside,the author makes initial research on the coldness resistance, the shade tolerance, the tolerance todrought and hotness, the growing length and rate, and the climbing abilities of them. The resultsare as follows:(i). The 6 species are treated by the low temperature. The results show their coldnessresistance from weakness to strongness is: Mucuna paohwashanica, Ficus pumila, Kadsuralongipedunculata, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Hedera helix, Euonymus fortunei.(ii). The results of the shade tolerence are: The spectrophotometric is used to determine these6 climbing plant species'shade tolerance. The results are described as follows, according to theorder from the strongest to the weakest: Ficus pumila, Hedera helix, Euonymus fortunei,Kadsura longipedunculata, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Mucuna paohwashanica.(iii) The results of drought and heat resistance and tolerance are described as follows: according to the order from the strongest to the weakest: Euonymus fortunei, Mucuna paohwashanica. Hedera helix, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Ficus pumila, Kadsura longipedunculata.(iv) The Climbing Ability Experiment show that Euonymus fortunei has the strongest climbing ability, following it in order are Mucuna paohwashanica, Hedera helix, Kadsura longipedunculata, Trachelospermumjasminoides.and Ficus pumila.TV. The landscape application of climbing plants. The disposal principles of the climbers, the ways of disposing and the examples of disposing are analyzed and discussed in the thesis with the view to give references for the climbers' ornamental application in the future.