Sunken Flower Beds: Plants Below the Walking Surface

The relationship between a set of flower beds and pathways. The pathway is the high point of the paving, and the flower beds are sunken forty to sixty centimeters, allowing irrigation water to flow into channels and accumulate; when people walk on the paving, the tops of the flowers and shrubs are approximately at ankle to knee height, appearing like a green carpet. Avoid: making flower beds into raised planters, replacing sunken flower beds with lawns, allowing plantings to grow higher than the pathway surface to form a barrier, or neglecting the connection between irrigation channels and flower beds.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組花床與步道的關係。步道是鋪面的高點,花床下沉四十到六十公分,灌溉的水可以沿著渠道流進去並積存;人走在鋪面上時,花與灌木的頂端大約在腳踝到膝蓋的高度,看起來像一片綠色的地毯。避免:把花床做成高出地面的花台、用草坪取代下沉花床、讓植栽高過步道面形成屏障、忽略灌溉水路與花床的連接。