园林设计顾名思义就是在一定的地域范围内，运用园林艺术和工程技术手段，通过改造地形（或进一步筑山、叠石、理水）、种植树木花草、营造建筑和布置园路等途经，创作而建成的美的自然环境和生活游憩境域的过程。
As the name suggests, garden design is the process of creating a beautiful natural environment and living and recreation environment by using garden art and engineering technology in a certain geographical range, through the transformation of terrain (or further building mountains, folding stones and managing water), planting trees, flowers and plants, building buildings and arranging Garden roads.
园林设计是一门研究如何应用艺术和技术手段处理自然、建筑和人类活动之间复杂关系，达到和谐完美、生态良好、景色如画之境界的研究。尽管世界造园艺术具有世界文化的一般内容与特征，有着园林艺术的统一性，但由于世界各民族之间存在着自然隔离、社会隔离和历史心理隔离等，因此，各民族的园林艺术就形成了不同的艺术风格，即园林形式。
Landscape design is a study of how to apply artistic and technical means to deal with the complex relationship between nature, architecture and human activities, so as to achieve the realm of harmony and perfection, good ecology and picturesque scenery. Although the world gardening art has the general content and characteristics of world culture and the unity of garden art, due to the natural isolation, social isolation and historical psychological isolation among the world's nationalities, the garden art of various nationalities has formed different artistic styles, namely garden forms.