Exploration Of Selection And Configuration Mode Of Colorful Plants In The Urban Parks In Jiading, Shanghai

Shanghai is an international and cultural city, and it has lots of ancient gardens and plants. Jiading district is one of the larger urban areas in Shanghai. It has many landscape forms and detailed views. Colorful plants as ornamental garden plants in the high-value type, has been popular. After the proposal of from green city to colorful city, districts and counties are quoting colorful plants, configuring colorful new landscape. Jiading District’s colorful plants are introduced late, and its landscape is not mature. Take the occasion, investigate the colorful plants, analysis its present situation, species and configuration mode. Summarizes its characteristics, identify problems and propose optimization suggestions.By means of consulting documents and data, I selected 19 sample plots from the city parks in Jiading district. The research content and main conclusions of this article include:Through the survey, we can know that there are 20 families 33 genera 43 species of colorful trees in Jiading’s urban parks. Color-leaf trees have 14 families 20 genera 26 species, and color-leaf shrubs have 10 families 14 genera 17 species. In the colorful plants, autumn color leaf plants is most, followed by regular color leaf plants, and spring color leaf plants is the least. In the survey found that there is a variety of color leaf plant, but which is widely applied is not much; native plants is seldom used; there is a phenomenon that few plants has a high frequency of application.Application of colorful plants in Shanghai, Jiading District, solitary planting, planting in rows, vegetation and group planting application forms have appeared, in which planting in rows and vegetation planting are more, isolated planting and group planting are less. The form mainly used in the color-leaf shrubs is color-block. Various types of green space allocation models, there are color leafed plants in four kinds of application modes of road space, waterfront space, architecture and surrounding stone etc. In these models, the application mode of waterfront space and surrounding buildings is more mature and stable, and the application in road space is not. The application mode of combining of colorful plants and garden ornaments is the least. There is the highest rate of application mode that colorful plants are combined with Landscape stone. The configuration mode of Jiading’s colorful plant is more traditional, and lack of local characteristics.This article summarized species and application mode of color leaf plants in Jiading urban parks, put forward some optimized suggestions and a list of colorful leaf plants suitable for the Jiading district, provided reference and theory basis for colorful leaf plants’ application in Jiading’green space system.