TLE-Landscape_Gardening-GRADE9 PRESENTATION

The visual appearance of a property, can be enhanced through landscaping

1. Landscape Gardening

2. Reason for Landscape Gardening The visual appearance of a property, can be enhanced through landscaping

3. Types of Services for Landscaping 1. Garden Landscaping Service. This is the most common type of service offered by landscapers. This includes clearing out weeds, shrubs, unwanted trees and other vegetation. Two kinds: Soft landscaping  which deals with using plants like palms, trees, shrubs and flowers to enhance the beauty of the landscape. Hard Landscaping  involves all construction or civil works like improving fences, terraces, pathway and driveways.

4. 2. Landscape Maintenance Services  This type of landscape service involves trimming, pruning, weeding, and controlling pests in the garden

5. 3. Water Feature Construction and Design Services.  Clearing weeds from ponds, lakes, and other water bodies surrounding the property are included in this type of service.  Placements of colored stones and planting of flowering plants along their edge are also included.

6. .4. Landscape Lighting Services.  includes installation of lights in the garden, driveway, backyard or along edges of water bodies.

7. 5. Stump Grinding Services.  Leftover plant stumps can appear quite ugly and can affect the overall appearance and beauty of an improved landscape.

8. Most Popular design styles frequently used:

9. 1. Japanese Garden Style  This Garden style has become popular. This garden theme conveys unity and elegance

10. 2. Mediterranean Style  This is considered the most popular type of landscape design used in many parts of the world. Plants like palm trees and different varieties of Mediterranean plants dominate this design style.

11. 3. Southwest Garden Style.  This style is appropriate in arid or dry places. The use of plants that need less water is present here.

12. 4. Cottage Garden Style  This style has taken a new appearance since its creation with a specific purpose, and that is to raise crops to sustain families.

13. 5. Tropical Landscape Design Style.  This style is almost the same as the Mediterranean style. The only difference is that the plants used in this design style have much larger leaves and flowering plants are strongly bright colored.

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