Skansen
Landscape terms
An open-air museum that houses ethnographic monuments from various districts of the region; mainly these are examples of traditional wooden architecture.
Glossary of terms
A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Solitaire
Landscape terms
A tree or shrub growing separately.
Sparse stand
Landscape terms
A park stand with low vertical canopy closure, whose characteristic feature is the absence of undergrowth. Allows creation of deep perspectives.
Staffage
Landscape terms
Figures of people, small genre scenes introduced into the composition of a landscape park to enliven it.
Stem
Landscape terms
The leafless, branch-free section of the trunk from the root collar to the first scaffold branch of the crown. As a rule, standard trees are formed for avenue plantings or as solitary specimens.
Symmetry
Landscape terms
(ancient Greek συμμετρία – «uniformity», «proportion») – the appropriateness of the placement of elements of an object's form relative to a straight line (axis of symmetry), which is perceived by the eye as a particular kind of orderliness…