Abstract: Ecological construction of plant landscape is an important part of rural landscape construction. Based on the simulation of natural and semi-natural plant communities, this paper studied the ecological construction of plant landscapes in rural areas of Southern Jiangsu. According to the constituent elements of rural landscape, the rural plant landscape could be divided into residential plant landscape (public space in residential area), farmland plant landscape, road plant landscape, and riparian plant landscape, and the ecological construction of rural landscape could be conducted with the reference of natural plant communities. Taking the rural area of southern Changshu as a case, its natural and semi-natural plant communities were investigated by the methods of vegetation ecology. Fifteen models of artificial planting were designed, which could be used for the ecological construction of plant landscapes in the rural areas of Southern Jiangsu. Different types of rural plant landscape had different characteristics and functional requirements. Through the analysis of the characteristics of typical villages in Changshu, it was suggested that the simulated natural plant communities could be used as the bases to further reform and formulate the planting modes to adapt to different types of rural plant landscape.

Key words: Actinidia fruit, Bagging, Ecological effect