What are the garden spherical plants?

It is understood that many landscape designers are more resistant to spherical shrubs because we really use too much. Almost every real estate, every park, every hotel ... you can see spherical shrubs everywhere in the garden. Party A wants to use the ball, and the ball is effective, but in reality, the ball is like this.

Even so.

However, this is not entirely "attributable" to the engineering contractor. Plastic plants are the most expensive kind of plant landscape and need to be pruned frequently. In order to maintain a good effect, highly skilled technicians are needed to build it, and the labor cost is much higher than that of ordinary vegetation.

Many shrubbery balls were really good when they were planted, but after a long time, the pruning times became less and less, and the above scene appeared.

So what should a well-maintained bush ball and modeling plant look like? Let's take a look together. Choose intensive foliar irrigation.

Our common modeling shrubs are mostly Ligustrum lucidum, Pterocarya stenoptera, Euonymus japonicus and Pittosporum japonicum, but compared with the above plants, Euonymus japonicus is more suitable for pruning and modeling. This plant has small leaves and dense branches and leaves, and its gardening effect is excellent.

The famous French Marci Sack Garden is a fairytale scene, decorated with a lot of brocade boxwood.

▲ Marchisak Garden

▲ Marchisak Garden

If properly maintained, Euonymus japonicus can be regarded as a "perfect plant" for plastic gardeners.

In addition to brocade boxwood, boxwood and boxwood can also be used to trim modeling plants, but boxwood is not as effective as the first two boxwood.

▲ boxwood ball

▲ boxwood ball

Of course, the big bear doesn't mean that other plants can't be used for modeling. Many plants can be used for gardening as long as they are properly pruned and cultivated.

▲ Cedar ball

▲ Cedar is shaped to a certain amount.

Since the bush ball is chosen, it must be the pursuit of craftsmanship and artificiality, but our usual bush balls are usually single or two or three combined together, and the sense of craftsmanship is not strong, mainly because matching a large number of plants will lead to high maintenance costs in the later period. Having said that, as long as the shape forms a certain scale, it will have good ornamental value.

Although there is a quantity, the appreciation is still based on pruning.

arrange in proper proportions

As mentioned above, a large number of plastic plants will produce high maintenance costs, so now most people choose the combination of plastic plants and natural plants, but it is not limited to the combination between plants, but also needs to be well combined with other landscapes.

The famous Ashikaga Art Museum in Japan harmoniously combines plastic plants with traditional Japanese gardens.

▲ Courtyard of Zuli Art Museum

Zuli Art Museum uses a large number of spherical shrubs for landscaping, and the combination method is flexible and changeable.

▲ Courtyard of Zuli Art Museum

Most of the spherical shrubs we usually see are not well integrated with the surrounding environment, but suddenly planted there. But this aspect can't be done by simple plants, and it needs the cooperation of various professionals.

▲ Combined floor.

Because of its regular geometry, modeling plants can directly match hard scenes (as shown above), but this is rarely used in public landscapes, mainly because it is easy to be destroyed.

What we share on this issue is a relatively narrow category. There are many ideas for plant modeling, which are not limited to shrub balls. Of course, if bush balls can be trimmed in this way, I believe colleagues will use them a lot.

Doing garden landscape is not painting, nor sculpture, and what it looks like. Gardens are always changing and need long-term management and maintenance to have good results. The excellent gardens we usually see have only appeared after years of washing and training.