[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shrubbery

[Paul Allen]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 22:21, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> From a UK English perspective - when you have a group of decorative but
> incidental plantings (any combination of plants, bushes, ornamental trees
> and grasses), perhaps on a mulch bed, that might be located along the edge
> of a car park or perhaps bordering a building - what is the term that is
> used to describe such a feature?
>

I'm not a gardener, architect or landscaper.  I'd point at it and say "that
stuff over there."

You appear to be talking of a linear feature although this grew out of
a problem with areas: worth considering but the area is the immediate
problem.

If it were just shrubs then you might get away with calling it a shrubbery,
but many of the area features previously discussed wouldn't qualify.
They're not really ornamental, often monoculture, and essentially
fill the ground with no gaps.  Not something you walk past and
admire the ingenuity and variety, just a low-maintenance barrier
that occupies an area - a very thick hedge.

You have now thrown trees into the mix.  Even ignoring the
shrubbery/shrubs distinction, trees are not shrubs.

Oh, and you included grass.  So it can, presumably, be walked through.
Which makes it irrelevant to the problem of how to map what is
really a very thick hedge now that barrier=hedge + area=yes
no longer results in a filled area in standard carto.

-- 
Paul
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