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1. A widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves and large bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts.
2. A slender Eurasian plant related to the knapweeds, with flowers that are typically a deep, vivid blue.
3. A giant woody grass which is grown chiefly in the tropics; the young shoots of the plant can be eaten and the stems are used to make furniture.
4. An evergreen coniferous tree with upright cones and flat needle-shaped leaves, typically arranged in two rows.
5. A slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins.
6. An Australian acacia tree with delicate fern-like leaves and yellow flowers.
Garden and landscape design
Garden and landscape design is the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Garden and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas and in recreational areas and parks. It is one of the decorative arts and is allied to architecture, city planning, and horticulture.
The vegetated landscape that covered most of the Earth’s continents before humans began to build still surrounds and penetrates even the largest metropolises. Efforts to design gardens and to preserve and develop green open space in and around cities are efforts to maintain contact with the original pastoral, rural landscape. Gardens and designed landscapes, by filling the open areas in cities, create continuity in space between structural urban landscapes and the open rural landscapes beyond. Moreover, gardens and designed landscapes have a special type of continuity in time. Buildings, paintings, and sculpture may survive longer than specific plants, but the constant cyclical growth and change in plants provide a continuous time dimension that static structures and sculpture can never achieve.
