Landscape and landscaping

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Some facts and definitions of landscape and landscaping.

The term "landscape" was firstly used in Renaissance art describing a painting in which nature, observed by man, is the main character.
Later on, the term was used to describe the art of gardening, but recently it has been excessively used in too many areas - media landscape, advertising landscape, industry landscape that have nothing to do with its native meaning.

Other definitions see landscaping as "the beautification of out door terrain which is mainly engaged in exterior works and gardening in both residential and non-residential buildings and parks through the process of planting trees, flowers, shrubs, grasses, water fountains,construction of kerbs,walkways, pavements and drainage.
Landscape - natural or man-made - is a valuable resource with a high impact in improving the quality of life."

Natural landscape
The natural landscape represents the area where the natural elements have preserved unmodified by man intervention. Thus, integration of human structures and creations must be made in harmony with it, not to alter it but to add new beauty valences to it.
But there are many situations when the natural landscape doesn't stir any aesthetic emotions so man can and sometimes must intervene to improve and ameliorate it. 
That's why is important to involve landscaping specialists in the transformation of a natural landscape.

Set Landscape
Modifying the natural landscape as well as the creation of a new one must exploit and fully use the valuable traits of the terrain and of the existing landscape eliminating the negative traits.
A set landscape can complete and correct the natural landscape and furthermore, to bring together in the same territory visual aspects found disparately in nature.
This is why garden design aspiration regards visual harmony of elements and integration of certain functions in it to satisfy various expectations and demands.