STATISTICAL RESEARCH ON THE PREFERENCE TO GARDEN PLANTS AND LANDSCAPE OF PRIVATE GARDENS

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

We made a survey on the landscape of private gardens in Japan and European countries. Houses to survey were randomly chosen using detail house maps or telephone books. We visited those houses. If we allowed to survey by the inhabitant, we took many photographs of the private garden and made a questionnaire survey to the inhabitant on gardening. We surveyed 78 houses at Aoba Ward in Yokohama, Japan, 29 at Reading, 15 at Edinburgh in UK, 23 at Torino in Italy and 40 at Freising in Germany.The impression got from photographs of private gardens was measured by several psychological experiments, such as the subjective classification of photographs based on the similarity between them, questionnaires to them, the discrimination of countries of them and so on. These experiments were carried out to Japanese, British, Italian and Germany students. The discrimination experiment to photographs of gardens in Japan and UK showed that Japanese and British students had a high ability to distinguish domestic and foreign garden landscapes, however, Germany student had a less ability.Checking all photographs of private gardens revealed that there were chairs, tables, spots goods, firewood and a shed in many European private gardens, however, there were seldom such things in many Japanese ones.We produced the virtual gardening system worked on PC. This made a virtual flowerbed on the monitor freely to plant from 57 kinds of garden plants. The history to plant or delete garden plants on PC was automatically recorded. The preference to garden plants of the maker of the virtual flowerbed could be realized by analyzing its history. Analysis of the usage list of garden plants used in virtual flowerbeds showed that Germany students were likely to prefer plants with large and four-color flowers such as dahlia, whereas Japanese students were likely to prefer small and light color.