The Application Of Shade-tolerant Plants In Landscape And Architecture

The plant landscape is a very important in modern landscape and architecture, which should be guided by the ecological theory. The finitude of city greenbelt area and the improvement of people to taste of landscape and architecture required the designers paying more attention to the diversity of community. But now there are many problems in the landscape and architecture greenbelt, such as less plant species, absent community planting and community structure, unscientific guidance, etc. The landscape and architecture should be structured under the guidance of ecological theory in order to keep the good city environment and the fast development of city, which could enrich the community arrangement and exert ecological benefit of greenbelt furthest. The light is the primary factor for-photosynthesis of plant. Now some greenbelts are surrounded by the architecture, 50 percent greenbelts are in the shady environment. So the plants in the greenbelt are short of light and stressed by the dark light intensity. The study of shade-tolerant plant is a very important part in the landscape and architecture, and is the bases of improving the plant community arrangement and taking full advantage of landscape and architecture space.The applications of shade-tolerant plant were classified according to the structure arrangement, intensity of shade-tolerant and view and admire characters. The actualities of application of shade-tolerant plant in landscape and architecture were summarized. The effect and sight impact of shade-tolerant plant in the outside plant community and shade environment under the architecture. The shade-tolerant plant has the effect of organizing space, improving the character of space in the inside of architecture. The application of shade-tolerant plant in the entrance, living room, bedroom, study room and stairway were analyzed.The basic principles were put out for the application of shade-tolerant plant in the plant landscape design. First was the ecological principle. The selection of plant should give priority to the native plants, which should endure the drought, leanness. The selection of plants should change according the different environment. The second was the diversity of plant community principle. When the community was constructed, the arbor, shrub and grass should be selected and by all means to increase the plant kinds. The characteristic artificial communities were collocated according to the different nature conditions. The third was the community stability principle. The diversity was the base of stability. Drastic competition in the community should be avoided. The peak community was selected and the direction of community succession was forecasted correctly. The steady middle community style was kept. The fourth was the lowest energy principle. Those plants were selected, such as plants having long-term life-span, middle growth speed, enduring gruff management and prune. Those actions should be adopted, such as replacing the plant point planting with zonal planting, control the plant density in reason, reducing the expenditure for the management, loose cutting, etc. Simple community structure did not mean simple management, sometimes more troubles. The fifth was landscape artistic principle. The form beauties and artistic conception of individual and community should be exhibited by artistic constructer. The body, line, color and character of plants should be made the best of. And the dynamic landscape should be construed by the changing of plants growth.The primary shade-tolerant plant kinds in Nanning city were summarized after detailed investigation and classified according to their application, such as under the arbor, under the forest, uprightness virescence, enjoying flower, enjoying fruit. The application of shade-tolerant plants in the Nanning Minzu Road was analyzed. The landscape was strengthened after increasing the number and kind of shade-tolerant plants comparing with it without reconstruct. The applications of shade-tolerant plants under the cloverleaf junction in Nanning City were analyzed. Some principles about the plant selecting under the cloverleaf junction were put out, such as plant could endure drought, high temperature, intensity light, and pollution and have good landscape. The applications of shade-tolerant in the perpendicularity virescence, Renmin Park and indoor landscape and architecture were analyzed. The kinds and application manners were summarized. The suggestion for developing indoor landscape and architecture was put forward. The problems and suggests about the use of shade-tolerant plants were bring forward. The plant scheme should be more all-around and long-term. More work should be done for he studies and applications of native plants. The selection of plant should be more integrated. The flexibility of adaptability of plant should be considered during the course of constructing and maintaining.