Conventional plant landscaping is often used in conventional gardens and occasions requiring solemnity, such as temples, tombs, squares, roads, entrances and around large buildings.
In the classical gardens of France, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries, the plant landscape is mainly regular, and plants are trimmed into various geometric shapes and bird and beast shapes, which are in harmony with the lines, shapes and even volumes of regular buildings. Ancient Egyptian gardens, ancient Greek gardens, ancient Roman gardens, Renaissance French gardens and other plant landscapes are all regular. Influenced by rationalism, the arrangement of plants in western classical gardens is completely regular, uniform and balanced. Plants are symmetrically arranged with the central axis, and plants are symmetrically arranged with the central axis in the selection of species, number of plants, volume, size and height. Lawns and flower beds are divided into various geometric plates, and even trees themselves are trimmed into regular patterns. For example, rows of trees in the Palace of Versailles are regularly arranged along the central axis, and the tree walls trimmed by densely planted trees give people an orderly and tidy visual feeling. Ancient Roman gardens attached great importance to the use of plant modeling, and there were special gardeners engaged in this work. In the early stage of modeling, only some evergreen plants with strong germination and lush foliage were trimmed into hedges, and then they developed day by day, pruning plants into various geometric figures, figures, patterns, and even some complex images of shepherds or animals. Commonly used plants are boxwood, yew and cypress. Another example is the Italian terrace garden in the Renaissance and the gardens in France18th century, where there are a lot of regular plant shapes.
Regular garden landscape gives people a feeling of grandeur and boldness. The construction of prosperous fan park in the plant landscape of western classical gardens. For example, Fan Park in Roman gardens has paths with complicated patterns, some paved with marble and some paved with turf, and trimmed hedges surround the sides of the road to form passages with complicated patterns and become entertainment places in the gardens.