Perenner i offentlig miljö : en samling exempel och erfarenheter

Sammanfattning: Abstract:Perennials in public areas have during the latest decades been more and more popular. This group of plants has become a more accepted komponent when creating pleasant public places, and people begin to see the functional aspects. Perennials do also give a colour- and senceexperience in a more detailed way than can be achieved with only trees and shrubs. One of the ojects of this essay is to give more examples of motives for using perennials in urban areas.Having in mind the increasing use of perennials, you can expect a growing need for better understading of how to create successfull perennial plantings. In spite of the increasing interest it is hard to find any written information in this subject. For that reason, the main purpose of this examination paper is to document and illustrate a few examples of how to do, concerning all the aspects from design and construction to organisation and maintenance. The perennial planting is placed in a greater context and is also looked apon from an economic and ecoligic point of view.The essay is mainly based on perennial planting studies and intervjues whith a number of persons who have a great practical experience in this subject. The intervjues have a lot in common, and they all agree that it takes both will and engagement to accomplish this kind of project. In some particular respects the intervju examples also differ quite much. Therefore this paper indicates that these perennial projects can be approached in many different ways, and caused to that fact an attempt is made to define some of these ways.