1, which constitutes the main scene.

A single plant or a combination of multiple plants can play the role of visual focus in the courtyard. Compared with the surrounding environment, plants have prominent and pleasant shapes and colors, which can not only show the beauty of individuals, but also be configured according to specific composition schemes.

Show the beauty of the group. A beautiful solitary tree, three or five groups of shrubs and colorful flower borders are all good choices for the main view of the small courtyard. There are also some plants with unique shapes or colors, which can bring special decorative effects to the courtyard.

Step 2 soften

Architecture gives people a stiff feeling. It is made of durable materials and solid forms, such as doors, windows, walls and roofs. Although the courtyard is built on the basis of architecture, we hope it can bring us a soft texture. Soft garden plants can just play this role. It softens and beautifies the small courtyard space for outdoor activities, rest and entertainment with its roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, pleasing colors and pleasant fragrance. Meet the needs of people's behavioral psychology and aesthetic taste. Therefore, the changeable natural colors, soft landscaping lines and unique posture charm of plants can increase the aesthetic feeling of buildings, form a dynamic and balanced composition, and make the courtyard space more harmonious and vivid.

3. Film pasting function

If the garden plants are properly configured, they can set off each other with other landscape elements to achieve a harmonious and unified effect. For example, the waterscape of small courtyards is mainly in the form of small pools, streams and springs. , can use plants to enrich the landscape effect. The postures, colors and reflections of garden plants in water and waterside can enhance the aesthetic feeling of water, at the same time, plants can shield the water source and beautify the waterfront, resulting in a far-reaching and natural feeling. It highlights the spirituality of water. In the small courtyard, evergreen trees or hedges can also be used as the background of garden sketches such as sculptures and fountains, and the sketches can be emphasized through the contrast of color and texture and the enclosure of space, which plays the role of point scenery.

4. Enrich functions

The biggest difference between garden plants and any other landscape elements is dynamic, colorful, fragrant and attractive. Different climate phenomena bring endless visual effects and spiritual feelings to courtyard space. The plants in the yard change with the seasons.

Culture presents different seasonal characteristics: everything germinates in spring, flowers bloom in summer, colorful in autumn and flourishing in winter.

Plant things together, so that the courtyard has scenery in four seasons and flowers in three seasons, and the landscape effect changes endlessly.

Step 5 entrust emotions

Plants in the courtyard often become the object of people's emotional sustenance. Many people like to plant flowers, fruits and vegetables in their own yards, because these gardening activities can not only beautify the yard, but also benefit their physical and mental health.

At the same time, the different cultural connotations of various plants will also bring people richer spiritual experience, which can not only express personality, but also express people's emotions and interests. Some plants have certain symbolic meaning and can arouse people's association. For example, pine and cypress symbolize perseverance; Plum blossom symbolizes cold, purity and firmness; Orchids symbolize elegance, nobility and friendship; Bamboo symbolizes modesty, courtesy, nobility and integrity; Chrysanthemum symbolizes staying away from the hubbub and being fearless in times of crisis. In the classical courtyards of China, people are used to appreciating the charm of plants from their shapes, smells and charms, and endowing them with personalized content and spiritual temperament, from appreciating the beauty of plants' shapes to appreciating their artistic conception.

Second, function

Garden plants can not only create aesthetic feeling, but also improve the quality of physical environment, mainly including improving environmental suitability and exerting ecological benefits.

1, improving environmental suitability.

Because of the close relationship between small courtyards and buildings, plants can play an active role in creating a suitable living environment and make up for the lack of architectural space in many aspects, including shading and controlling outdoor privacy. For example, trees planted on the west side of the building can effectively block the sunlight from the west, while trees in the windward direction can slow down the wind speed in winter. The area under the tree in the small courtyard is a good leisure and entertainment space, because the crown of the tree can block the line of sight upstairs and keep the sense of privacy better.

2. Give play to ecological benefits

Although the area and space of the small courtyard are limited, plants can still play the following ecological benefits: the branches and leaves of trees can block sunlight, reduce radiation, reduce temperature and increase humidity; Fine and dense plant branches and leaves can absorb suspended particles in the air, block flying dust in the air and improve air cleanliness; Plants can also absorb and block noise, thus reducing the intensity of noise. In addition, some plants have the functions of generating negative ions and releasing bactericidal substances, and have health care functions. Therefore, when planning and designing garden plants, we can try to choose some plant species with composite functions, such as osmanthus, wisteria, cinnamon, chlorophytum, aloe, rose, jasmine and so on. , can not only enjoy the scenery, but also purify the air, and has good use value.

Third, the structural role.

Like the walls, columns, doors and windows of buildings, plants can play a structural role as elements of space. With their rich and diverse natural forms, they can improve the space composed of buildings and walls in small courtyards, construct the necessary secondary space structure, enrich the level changes of courtyard space, create space, guide space and form boundaries.

1, create space

Proper plant configuration can better organize the space of small courtyard, and plants can be used to separate and limit the space in the landscape design of small courtyard to form a relatively independent small environment.

The branches and leaves of trees can enclose space, and the degree of enclosure varies with the density of branches, the distance between plants, the density of leaves and other factors. In summer, trees with dense branches and leaves can form a good closed space, giving people an introverted loneliness and playing a better role in shading. Winter is also the same space, because the sight of plants can be extended to further places after falling leaves, which is bigger and more empty than summer, and at the same time, more sunlight can be penetrated. In winter, deciduous plants use branches to indicate the spatial range, while evergreen plants can droop.

Form a year-round stable space sealing effect on the face.

We can also use hedges, flower walls, flower stands, flower beds and flowerpots to define the space and divide it into small spaces with certain transparency and relative concealment.

2. Guide space

Plants can shape the rhythm of space and guide, connect and connect the relationships between spaces in a vital way. For example, when a series of spaces in the courtyard exist relatively loosely, linear planting can organically connect isolated spaces together.

In garden landscape design, the position and configuration of plants will directly affect the overall effect of courtyard space. The distance and angle of sight, the close shot, the middle shot and the long shot in the space picture can be controlled by careful arrangement of plants to achieve the best effect. Close shots often appear in various forms, such as flowers, bushes, lawns and landscape sketches. The long lens can see other buildings or forests, the sky and so on through the frame view formed by plants.

Step 3 form a boundary

There are many ways to enclose the small courtyard with the surrounding area, including walls, fences and small buildings. Using plants to enclose a boundary can not only form a good sense of enclosure, but also maintain the necessary privacy, and at the same time create a "soft" boundary visually and emotionally to enhance the landscape and interest of the courtyard.