The term soft landscape is used by practitioners of landscape design, landscape

architecture, and garden design; and gardeners to describe the vegetative materials
which are used to improve a landscape by design. The corresponding term hard
landscape is used to describe construction materials. The range of soft landscape
materials includes each layer of the ecological sequence: aquatic plants, semi-
aquatic plants, field layer plants (including grasses and herbaceous plants) shrubs
and trees.
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