At the Chelsea Flower Show in 2013, a plant display space was created using a block-like technique. Shrubs of different shades in a unified color scheme were trimmed into simple and regular geometric blocks, which were combined with low-branched trees and delicate flowers. After a very regular arrangement and combination, a minimalist and interesting spatial relationship was created in the horizontal and vertical spaces. The fine and regular shrubs were combined with vertically growing straight-line shrubs and tall or umbrella-shaped perennial flowers, reflecting a strong leaf contrast effect.

First, take Sunac Beijing No. 1 Courtyard as an example. Since the project site is not large and the volume ratio is high, how to break the conventional thinking and create a different garden space in a high-density building space? Unlike previous projects, this project adopts a very regular plant planting method. The plant configuration follows the principle of minimalism and decomposes the small space into different garden spaces. After that, in each small garden, the leaf contrast method is fully utilized. First, trimmed shrubs of different heights are used as planting beds. Secondly, straight-line shrubs are matched to create a strong leaf contrast, and perennial flowers with different leaf shapes are added in between to enrich the color contrast. In the middle and high-rise spaces, clustered small trees are used to enrich the middle and lower spaces. In this way, through the high and low levels of plants, different vertical landscape visual experiences are brought to the viewers, creating a fresh environment.

Use regular hedges as the background, and different-sized bulbs for the foreground. The bulbs must have leaves of different sizes. Also add straight lines or umbrella-shaped shrubs between the bulbs and the hedges to enhance the leaf contrast.

High hedges divide the space to form relatively independent gardens, while low hedges are used as the foreground. The space between the two is filled with flower mirrors, and straight-line shrubs such as Amaranthus and False Dragon Head are used to draw lines. The bottom is matched with large leaves such as Hosta. The most important thing is to add shrubs with strong color contrast such as Silver-edged Boxwood and Boxwood to increase the visual appreciation of the middle and lower levels.

The same technique is used in Hangzhou Xinhu Wulin International, Hangzhou Binjiang Sunshine Coast, Hong Kong Sun Hung Kai Peak One Genting, and Hong Kong Sun Hung Kai YOHO Park, which also use regular modern design combined with flower mirror processing to create a romantic garden effect.

Hangzhou Xinhu Wulin International also uses plants to create space in small plots, achieving the effect of seeing the big in the small. On the basis of shaping the space with color blocks, the use of contrasting colors is enhanced, and flowers with extremely strong contrast with the color of the hedges are used to emphasize the boundaries and spatial arrangement of the color blocks.

The regular hedge shrubs and flowering shrubs create a striking color contrast

Hangzhou Binjiang Sunshine Coast real picture

Compared with the previous two projects , Peak One by Sun Hung Kai Properties in Hong Kong is more dynamic and interesting on the basis of regular color blocks. It includes a combination of block-shaped trees and dot-shaped trees, which makes the color level richer. At the same time, the green wall is matched with plant groups to solve the problem of plant matching in a narrow space.

Different plant treatment techniques are used on two platforms with different height differences to form a three-dimensional garden.

Minimalist landscape not only pursues the "extreme simplicity" of elements in the landscape, but also strives for the simplicity of plant varieties and quantities, and often uses solitary planting. A large tree with excellent shape supports an entire important landscape node. Chinese gardens and Japanese courtyards use such a planting form of "seeing the big in the small" and "winning more with less".

There is a long road in front of the Hangzhou Greenland Huajiachi No. 1 Sales Office connected to the viaduct. The design uses this road to create a visual corridor with plants to enhance the sense of ceremony and mystery when entering the sales office.

The building and main entrance of Hangzhou Xinhu Wulin International are not deep, so it is not suitable for group planting. Instead, clustered camphor trees are planted in rows to better reflect the lines of the building's facade.

In order to increase the interest of the large lawn, the treatment techniques of terraced gardens were used to create a landscape space with rich layers.

The influence of seasons on plants presents their original seasonal colors. The gears of life keep turning, bringing emerald green spring leaves, dark green summer leaves, brown-red autumn leaves, and gray winter stems. Respecting the laws of natural growth and embracing the beauty bestowed by seasonal changes greatly enhances the richness of the landscape and creates a diverse space.

Understand the characteristics of plants and choose seasonal plants with similar growth conditions to achieve diverse yet harmonious colors as the seasons change.

In BCI's plant design, color design is one of the most important links.

Beijing No. 1 Courtyard uses harmonious colors (similar colors) in summer to reflect the elegant environment

The green corridor between houses in summer adopts coordinated colors of dark green, medium green and light green.

The summer scenery of Beijing No. 1 Courtyard is a pixel garden composed of different levels of green. People's attention is mostly focused on the regular shrubs and the flowers dotted among them, which is modern yet romantic.

Beijing No.1 Courtyard uses contrasting colors and similar colors in autumn

The sales office of Greenland Huajiachi No. 1 in Hangzhou uses the concept of Monet's garden and adopts complementary (contrasting) plant color design techniques to bring a unique effect when it opens in winter.

The place where the space connects to the interior is designed by borrowing the scenery to introduce a large forest outside Zhejiang University, and two plant color design techniques, coordinated colors (similar colors) and complementary colors (contrasting colors), are used.

The green wall design of Peak One , a Sun Hung Kai development in Hong Kong, uses dark brown wood color on the wall to form a strong contrast with the green wall. The green wall is based on dark green, medium green and light green, while introducing bright leaf colors, leaf shapes and textures. Different tower trees are matched in front of the dark brown wood wall to pull the lines of the entire space upwards, and pink, blue-white, gray, gray-green and silver shrubs are used at the bottom to enrich the color contrast.

This is the end of the analysis of plant design and space creation in "Bergolin's Plant Philosophy 1". In the future, we will share more with you on other planting techniques.