Soft landscape materials

Soft landscape materials

The term "soft landscape" is used by practitioners of landscape architecture and garden design to describe the vegetative materials which are used to improve a landscape by design. The corresponding term "hard landscape" is used to describe construction materials. The range of soft landscape materials includes each layer of the ecological sequence: aquatic plants, semi-aquatic plants, field layer plants (including grasses and herbaceous plants) shrubs and trees.

ee also

*Garden design
*Hedge (gardening)
*Herbaceous border
*Shrub
*Tree
*Planting design


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