If you travel to China, Chinese gardens are definitely worth a visit. In Suzhou city alone, there are as many as 108 gardens. Every tourist who has been to Chinese gardens must be deeply impressed by the bamboo garden landscape. In ancient times, garden designers were skilled at using bamboo for landscaping, and this continues to this day. Bamboo gardens also play an important role in modern urban spaces.
Bamboo is useful landscape material, and also the present of urban cultural heritage. The application of bamboo garden landscape design ideas in modern urban spaces has mainly four key points:
Firstly, the integration of beauty and culture.
The tall and straight bamboo poles and the green all years bamboo leaves make bamboo itself beautiful enough. While more diverse bamboo garden landscapes can be created by combining the natural beauty of bamboo with artificial landscapes.
For example, the combination of bamboo and flowing water, commonly known as “Bamboo Water Spout”, creates a dynamic beauty in a static garden. Alternatively, bamboo can appear with plum, orchid, and chrysanthemum together to form the “Four Gentlemen of Flowers”, while bamboo, pine and plum can form the “Three Friends of Winter”, integrating the beauty of bamboo and its traditional culture into the landscape.
Secondly, ecological benefits.
Bamboo gardens are also the greening of urban spaces, bringing ecological benefits. Bamboo can absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during its rapid growth, improving air quality and reducing the heat island effect. Meanwhile, dense and evergreen bamboo gardens can also serve as habitats for birds or other small animals, which has a positive effect on maintaining biological diversity.
Thirdly, economy.
As mentioned above, bamboo grows rapidly, this determines that it is a low-cost landscape material. The building and the subsequent maintenance cost of bamboo gardens is relatively low, and it doesn’t require personnel to manage it frequently. In building a similar scale landscape, other flowers and trees consume more resources than bamboo. Therefore, bamboo gardens, as an economical landscape, are always the first choice when controlling budgets.
Fourth, a creative multifunctional space.
In addition to sightseeing, bamboo gardens can also be creatively designed as multifunctional spaces. Bend the bamboo on both sides of the road towards the middle to form an arch made of bamboo, use bamboo pavilions and chairs to create a resting place, use bamboo fences to make plant climbing frames, use bamboo screens as spatial partitions, and so on.
To summarize, the application of the bamboo garden landscape design ideas in modern urban spaces has improved the aesthetics of the environment, created ecological benefits, and reflected the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
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