How to classify garden plants according to their ornamental characteristics

(1) Ornamental flowers

Include woody flowering plants and herbaceous flowering plants. Flower-watching plants take flowers as the main ornamental part. Win by its large flowers, many flowers, bright flowers or floral fragrance. Woody flowering plants such as magnolia, plum blossom, azalea, peach blossom, elm leaf plum, etc. Herbaceous flowering plants include chrysanthemum, orchid, dahlia, safflower, gladiolus and so on.

(2) foliage plants

Garden plants with decorative leaf shapes and colors. This plant has bright and colorful leaves, or their leaves are strange and eye-catching. Ornamental foliage garden plants have long ornamental period and high ornamental value. Such as bamboo, red maple, cotinus coggygria, plantain, cycad, rubber tree, Eupatorium odoratum and so on.

(3) Stem

The stems of this garden plant have unique ornamental value because of their different colors or shapes from other plants. Such as Phyllostachys pubescens, Lagerstroemia indica, Pinus bungeana, bamboo, birch, red rosewood and so on.

(4) Fruit watching class

The fruits of this garden plant are colorful and enduring, or have strange colors and shapes. Such as pomegranate, bergamot, kumquat, five-color pepper, pyracantha, hawthorn and so on.

(5) Attitude category

Mainly appreciate the tree shape and posture of garden trees. This garden plant is dignified, towering, round, coiled, Yulong or umbrella-shaped. Such as cedar, cypress, camphor, ginkgo, acacia, elm longan and so on.

(6) Bud watching class

The tender buds of garden plants are particularly plump and beautiful. Such as silver willow, fragrant.