[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shrubbery

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Not "grass" but "ornamental grasses", i.e. "a single large plant in the
grass family".  Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennisetum_alopecuroides
And not "trees" but "ornamental trees", i.e. "miniature trees planted for
their aesthetic value"  Example:
http://www.dammanns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cinderella.jpg

These are common elements of mixed displays that also include
bushes/shrubs, ground cover plants, flowers...perhaps other natural
elements such as rocks or even a small water fountain.  They range from
large, impressive, well-maintained and manicured displays to "a couple of
sad bushes on a mulched area between parking spots".

In the US, I would call all of these "landscaping".  Surely the British
don't suffer from a complete lapse of terminology for describing these
areas.


On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 6:29 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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