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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.

​Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. According to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the borough comprises the six amalgamated towns of Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich,[3] although these places consist of numerous smaller settlements and localities. Sandwell's Strategic Town Centre is designated as West Bromwich, the largest town in the borough, while Sandwell Council House (the headquarters of the local authority) is situated in Oldbury.

Bordering Sandwell is the City of Birmingham to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley to the south and west, the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall to the north, and the City of Wolverhampton to the north-west. Spanning the borough are the parliamentary constituencies of West Bromwich West, West Bromwich East, Warley, and part of Halesowen and Rowley Regis, which crosses into the Dudley borough.

At the 2011 census, the borough had a population of 309,000 and an area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi).[4]

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