The meaning of community, green plan and landscape of residential district was discussed from the view point of landscape planning. The concept of community has been changed since 1970's. The discussion from opposite idea, urban community and rural community, is not available for looking over people orientation. We have more and more imaginary community oriented young men and women these days. So, it is much more important for making landscape plan to discuss from how to make up community in residential district. Community landscape is global presentation of regional natural condition and people life style. Community landscape is classified from the difference of main constituent who makes community and the difference of objective feature of landscape. Onymous-anonymous and ecology-amenity are two axes of making classification. The typical community landscape are following four ; Newly developed residential area having pedestrian way or plaza. Roadside plantings in downtown. Artificially made biotop in green space. Wood and farm land in urban fringe.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the historical features of Japanese garden planting. In the first part of this study I discussed that garden planting depended on the history of relations between human being and plants. We find out by archaeological excavations that in the Pre-Joumon Period, trees were used for firewood, moreover, in the Joumon Period, gathering and storing nuts to eat was done. In the Yayoi Period, rice and vegetables were produced, and the growing of fruit trees was begun. Such cultivation techniques made it possible to plant grass and trees in the garden.
In the second part I indicated the features of garden planting in the Asuka and Nara Period. In the Asuka Period, many pine trees were planted in the garden to make a seaside view. Moreover, in the Nara Period, Japanese apricot, peach, Japanese plum, cherry tree, bead tree, weeping willow, camellia, bamboo, chrysanthemum, etc. were added. On the other hand, in ordinary gardens of the nobles many kinds of grass and trees were used. In their gardens, the pine trees, cherry trees and maples, which afterwards became very important trees in the Japanese garden, were planted. It suggests that the traditional Japanese consciousness of garden planting originated in this time. In the Asuka Period, weeping willow and lotus were probably used at the square pond. Then in the Nara Period Japanese plum and peach were often planted in the gardens. Behind these tendency of planting we can see the influence of Chinese culture. Fudoki (713) described many plants which were valuable for food, medicine, building materials and so on. Some of them came to be used in the gardens of the next period.
In the third part, I described the means of getting garden plants and cultivation techniques in the Asuka and Nara Period.The garden plants were obtained from mountain, field, orchards, and foreign countries. The techniques of seeding, transplanting and cutting originated in those of rice, vegetable, herb, fruit tree growing and afforesting.

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