Soft landscape materials

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The term soft landscape is used by gardeners and practitioners of landscape design, landscape architecture, and garden design to describe the vegetative materials which are used to improve a landscape by design. [1] [2] The corresponding term hard landscape is used to describe construction materials. [3] 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. Soft landscaping can increase biodiversity in urban areas. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Evert, Klaus-Jürgen (2010-05-21). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning: Multilingual Reference Book in English, Spanish, French and German. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 930. ISBN   978-3-540-76455-7.
  2. ↑ Blake, James (2016-12-05). An Introduction to Landscape and Garden Design. Taylor & Francis. p. 191. ISBN   978-1-351-95876-9.
  3. ↑ Blake, James (2016-12-05). An Introduction to Landscape and Garden Design. Taylor & Francis. pp. 115–117. ISBN   978-1-351-95876-9.
  4. ↑ Comerford, Mark (2025-02-26). "Concrete spaces to be converted into soft landscaping areas to 'introduce more biodiversity' into urban Portlaoise". Laois Today. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
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