Dongguan Avenue, Dongjiang Avenue and Ring Way, etc. are the major landscape avenues in Dongguan, Guangdong. They represented the general design features of the urban landscape avenue in Dongguan city: the roads were built following the hill and the river with broad traffic space, greenways, plazas, beautiful gardens and other landscape elements. There have high plant diversity and complex plant community structure in the avenue green space, which vary with the season and space. Moreover the landscape architectures, sculptures, some stones, waterscape, flower beds and so on are used to enrich avenue scenes. Establishment of plant communities are the focus of the landscape avenues. This paper with many photographs illustrates greening skill and plants collocation techniques as well as how to build landscape and more levels of plant community. We discuss the dialectical relationship between urban landscape avenue and the greening concepts of low cost with "Only few necessary but not more".
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