Landscape

alt=see caption|thumb|upright=1.5|A section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that has pink Prunus 'Kanzan' cherry trees thumb|upright=1.5|The New Jersey Botanical Garden at [[Skylands Estate]] A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials.

300px|thumb|Halley Park in Bentleigh, Victoria|Bentleigh, Victoria, Australia thumb|right|Düden Park sign in Antalya|Antalya, Turkey

thumb|Grand Canyon, [[Arizona, at the confluence of the Colorado River and Little Colorado River.]]

thumb|The White Cliffs of Dover upright|thumb|The Trango Towers in Pakistan. Their vertical faces are the world's tallest cliffs. Trango Tower center; Trango Monk center left; Trango II far left; Great Trango right. upright|thumb|Europe's highest cliff, Troll Wall in Norway, a famous [[BASE jumping location for jumpers from around the world.]]

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions. Combining both their physical origins and the cu

thumb|upright=1.25|Jungle in Cambodia thumb|upright|Jungle on Tioman Island, [[Malaysia]] thumb|El Yunque National Forest in [[Puerto Rico, the only tropical rainforest managed by the U.S. National Forest Service]] A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past century. Because jungles occur on all inhabited landmasses and may incorporate numerous vegetation and land types in different climatic zones, the wildlife of jungles cannot be straightforwardly defined.

upright=1.35|thumb|The Three Gorges Dam in [[Central China is the world's largest power-producing facility of any kind.]]

thumb|The Chocolate Hills constitute a landform.

science of relationships between ecological processes in the environmental landscape and particular ecosystems

process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages for specific outcomes

original landscape formed by nature

a city designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact

sustainable and resilient infrastructure

multilaterial environmental agreement

thumb|right|Painting of the Dam Square in Amsterdam, by [[Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, ]] thumb|right|Photograph of Dresden, Germany, in the 1890s In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to th

distinct style of garden

elevated sightseeing platform

common open area within a village or other settlement, historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock

thumb|upright=1.3|Landscaping an elementary school courtyard in the city of Kuching Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following: Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the landscape. Natural abiotic elements, such as landforms, terrain shape and elevation, or bodies of water. Abstract elements, such as the weather and lighting conditions. Landscaping requires a certain understanding of horticulture and artis

right|thumb|A wooden stile in Esha Ness, [[Shetland]]

small dam

[[File:Bakhátas magaságyás 2.png|thumb|A schematic image of a Hügelkultur mound.

Dutch landscape architect (born 1944)

branch of landscape architecture

theory of urban design

international gardening and garden festival

roads built with water pervious materials to limit surface runoff

mountain

thumb|300px|Harden Parkway in Salinas, California

low tract of land

tree grown specifically for its shade

thumb|Runoff from the vicinity flows into an adjacent bioswale Bioswales are channels designed to concentrate and convey stormwater runoff while removing debris and pollution. Bioswales can also be beneficial in recharging groundwater, reducing flooding and erosion, and creating a valuable habitat for pollinators.

the degree to which the landscape facilitates or impedes movement among resource patches

Discipline of engineering

garden in France

EU strategy for biodiversity

landscape design firm

conservation-oriented land use planning

profession

forest in Heemstede, the Netherlands

thumb|Sidewalks are a common form of hardscaping Hardscape is hard landscape materials in the built environment structures that are incorporated into a landscape. This can include paved areas, driveways, retaining walls, sleeper walls, stairs, walkways, and any other landscaping made up of hard wearing materials such as wood, stone, and concrete, as opposed to softscape, the horticultural elements of a landscape.

Body of surface water in a channel with surrounding undeveloped land dominated by grasses

thumb|right|Barkdust being used as mulch. In agriculture, gardening, and landscaping, barkdust (also bark dust, bark chips, bark mulch, beauty bark, tanbark, tan bark, or simply bark) is a form of mulch produced out of chipped or shredded tree bark. Coarser forms of barkdust may be known as bark nuggets. Trees typically used in the production of barkdust include the Douglas fir and the western hemlock.

Softscape is the live horticultural elements of a landscape. Softscaping can include flowers, plants, shrubs, trees, flower beds, and duties like weed/nuisance management, grading, planting, mowing, trimming, aerating, spraying, and digging for everything from plants and shrubs to flower beds. Wheelbarrows and manual tools like rakes, shovels, picks, and gas power tools are commonly used. The term has been popularized in recent pop culture (2006 onwards) on television shows such as Home & Garden Television. The purpose of softscape is to lend character to the landscaping, create an aura, ambie

thumb|upright=1.2|The Wave by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Philosophy about how humans should regard land