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Landscaping

​Landscapingrefers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including:

  1. Living

    elements, such as

    flora

    or

    fauna; or what is commonly called

    gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the

    landscape.

  2. Natural elements such as

    landforms,

    terrain

    shape and elevation, or

    bodies of water; and

  3. Abstract elements such as the

    weather

    and lighting conditions.

Landscaping requires expertise inhorticultureand artistic design.

​Rutland (/ˈrʌtlənd/) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands of England, bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire.

Its greatest length north to south is only 18 miles (29 km) and its greatest breadth east to west is 17 miles (27 km). It is the smallest historic county in England and the fourth smallest in the UK as a whole. Because of this, the Latin motto Multum in Parvo or "much in little" was adopted by the county council in 1950.[2] It has the smallest population of any normal unitary authority in England. Among the current ceremonial counties, the Isle of Wight, City of London and City of Bristol are smaller in area. The former County of London, in existence 1889 to 1965, also had a smaller area. It is 323rd of the 326 districts in population.

The only towns in Rutland are Oakham, the county town, and Uppingham. At the centre of the county is Rutland Water, a large artificial reservoir that is an important nature reserve serving as an overwintering site for wildfowl and a breeding site for ospreys.

Rutland's older cottages are built from limestone or ironstone and many have roofs of Collyweston stone slate or thatch.