| With the eco-city concept maturing, the construction of urban water systems is becoming the focus of urban greening, triggering a modern urban waterfront green design craze. Currently, in some of China’s urban waterfront landscape, the single varieties of plant species,irrational allocation of plant communities, and blindly transplanting exotic species, has made the waterfront ecosystem damaged and led to the change of original plant community growth environment, the poor growth and even death of plants; simply pursuing the form or configuration of plant morphology combined with the neglect of the natural properties of plants may affect the overall harmony of plant configuration; waterfront original ecology of natural vegetation is replaced by artificial planting greenery, stereotyped, loss of regional characteristics of plants; plant configuration is simple in form, with a wide range of lawn planted, the lack of rhythm and levels is seriously affecting urban waterfront landscape construction.In this paper, landscape ecology, landscape aesthetics, environmental psychology and other related theories are mainly based on. Through literature synthesis, field reconnaissance, survey, summaring and case-study, the waterfront plant landscape construction was discussed.The main conclusion of the study as follows:(1) Describe the research progress of urban waterfront plants and their landscape. Sum up the principles of urban waterfront plants and their landscape:a focus on protecting the ecological elements, restoring the original natural vegetation landscape, and building a natural plant communities, both plant landscape artistry.(2) Through the study of urban waterfront choice of plants, plant site conditions, landscape art and coordination with other elements of the waterfront landscape design, explore a general approach to urban waterfront plants and their landscape.(3)Through field surveying and analysising the plant landscape scenery of Hexi Section, Zhuzhou Xiangjiang Sightseeing Belt, five points are summed up:the transition section is too rough landscape plants;a lack of diversity of aquatic plants, lacking Waterfront Features; Waterfront Landscape plants lacking hierarchy; tree plant landscape without bright spots; plant landscape late conservation management not in place. Specific corrective create methods are proposed:creating features landscape sketch, minimalisting landscape transition section but not rough; applicating aquatic wetland plants water lilies, yellow iris, umbrella dry grass, grass pike, and then force flower, iris, reed, reed mosaic bamboo, to create hydrophilic region water stream, pool landscape, highlighting the Waterfront Features; tree, shrub and grass with a reasonable level of wealth of landscape plants; trees rational use of space, the application of low shrub and grass plants, plant trees to create a landscape highlights; focus plant Landscape late conservation management, long-term effects of landscape plants. To provide a reference to future waterfront plant landscape construction are expected. |
