Garden landscape can be divided into two categories: one is soft things, such as trees, water, gentle wind, drizzle, sunshine, sky. The other kind is hard things, such as paving, walls, railings, landscape construction. Soft things called soft landscape, usually natural; Hard objects, called hard landscapes, are usually man-made.
    Garden landscape to the cultural square, park, community add a strong artistic atmosphere. The protection of the earth's limited forest resources is to protect the survival of human homes.

    Garden attribute is a natural attribute. As a sensible factor with light, shape, color and body, it has a certain spatial form, which is relatively independent and easy to be separated from the regional form background. Second, the social attribute, with a certain social and cultural connotation, has ornamental function, improve the environment and use function, can through its connotation, cause people's emotion, interest, association, empathy and other psychological reflection, namely the so-called landscape effect.

    The topography of the garden is divided into two parts: land and water. The good or bad planning of terrain has a direct impact on the aesthetic characteristics of garden space and the feeling of space in the garden, but also on the overall layout of the garden, landscape effect, drainage, pipeline facilities and other elements.
    The topography in a garden is continuous. The components of a garden are interrelated, influencing and restricting each other, and they cannot exist in isolation. Therefore, the planning of each terrain should not only maintain the drainage and planting requirements, but also integrate with the surrounding environment to achieve the effect of natural transition.
    Garden is artificial artistic processing and engineering measures. Garden beauty originates from nature and is higher than nature, which is the high unity of natural landscape and human landscape. The beauty of gardens is diversified, and the principles of the beauty of gardens must be followed in the topographic planning of gardens.