Landscape Reconstruction Design of the Summer Garden

At the end of 2018, R-land Yuanshu was invited to participate in the Landscape Reconstruction Design of the Summer Garden on Yanqi Lake for Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

R-land Yuanshu undertakes the landscape improvement of the area around the group photo place of dignitaries' stop at the Summer Garden and the distant mountains around the lake, which is called "the Pearl on the Longan", which goes without saying that the responsibility is great.

The design concept of landscape improvement derives from the “Wild Geese Falling in Pingsha” in the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang.

In this landscape, a flight of geese is shown by plant landscape, signifying that auspicious clouds will bring prosperity and beauty to the participating countries. This time, the ground cover plants in the Summer Garden provide a noble but unobtrusive purple as the main tone of the scene. Subsequent variety matching and flower border designs are based on this tone. The design technique of assembling the parts into the whole creates a harmonious and unified effect.

When considering that the distant mountains and the platform provide background and the foreground to the tea break area respectively, a distinction is made between the collocation methods of the ground cover plant varieties.

In the close view, the flower borders are designed with textured flower varieties, and the tea break garden stands out through abundant plant collocation.

In the distant view, the method of flaky planting is used to grow varieties with high color saturation, choosing appropriate positions amongst the purple tones of the mountains to brighten the color, and avoid the monotony and somberness of the distant mountains. Due to the large volume of stones stacked besides the waterfall in the distant mountains, the bonsai of Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.

With red tones are specially selected to be arranged and combined in the stone cracks, just like the cinnabar used in Chinese Shan shui painting, making the whole scene flexible and vivid, with an underlying tone of spirituality.