[Tagging] Tagging small areas of bushes, flowers, non-woody perennials, succulents, etc

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Thank you for the link to landuse=flowerbed. That tag seems to have
some acceptance in a variety of countries, and works quite well for
areas of flowering plants.

However, we still may need a way to tag ornamental plants that do not
produce significant flowers, for example, succulents and plants with
ornamental leaves but no flowers. I would not call a decorative bed of
cacti a "flowerbed", but perhaps this is an American distinction?

For an area of ornamental perennial woody plants like bushes, shrubs
and similar, would the whole area be a "shrubbery" or a "hedge" or
something else in British English?

What about an area with short, non-woody plants used as groundcover,
but which are not grasses nor similar-looking plants? Could
landuse=grass still be used, or should this only be used for actual
lawns?

Do we need a tag for a bed of ornamental herbs which are neither
flowers nor grasses, e.g. ferns, decorative coleus, Canna, Caladiums?
Examples: https://www.thespruce.com/top-foliage-plants-4021628

- Joseph Eisenberg

On 2/9/20, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If talking about them, or trying to describe them to somebody, I would call
> all of those examples either garden beds or flower beds.
>
> When I've mapped similar beds as part of a park, I've gone with
> leisure=garden
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=garden?uselang=en-AU
> working
> on this "A garden can also be a part of a park and might be for example
> fenced or distinguishable by its vegetation."
>
> On that page, though, I just noticed a fairly recent amendment to include
> reference to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dflowerbed -
> used ~4000 times so possibly worth paying attention to!
>
> & also the undocumented man_made=flowerbed, which is also used 311 times.
>
>  Thanks
>
> Graeme
>