Colored ground cover

Author: Liang Zhenqiang (Editor), Shi Anhai, Wang Bin (Photographer)
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Colorful ground cover is an active greening material in cities in recent years. Many ground cover plants have easier planting characteristics than lawns, lower maintenance costs, diverse colors, and better landscape effects. They have higher economic value than pure lawns. The book "Colorful Ground Cover" introduces the application of various common ground cover plants in public green spaces, residential green spaces, traffic green spaces, scenic spots, squares, and other areas. It is illustrated with images and text, concise in description, and provides practical reference for landscape workers and related professionals to select suitable ground cover plants for environmental beautification, greening, and other landscape applications.
Like other landscape ground cover plants, colorful ground cover has the following main functions:
1. Protecting the environment, eliminating weeds, protecting slopes and banks, and preventing soil erosion;
2. Improving air quality, purifying the atmosphere, regulating temperature and humidity, and reducing solar radiation;
3. Beautifying the environment, forming large-scale landscape, complementing other landscape elements, and increasing the landscape layers by combining with other landscape plants;
4. Providing economic by-products—medicinal herbs, vegetables, spices, and fiber materials.
The purpose of this book is to help landscape greening workers master the design methods of using colorful ground cover, understand the biological characteristics of colorful ground cover, and better leverage its role in landscape construction and environmental protection.