Planting Design

Catalog description

Students explore the aesthetic potential of plant material to create compelling spaces, with attention to techniques for anticipating growth rates, projecting mature form, and predicting seasonal character changes. Environmental tolerances of plants in the designed landscape, particularly in constructed urban soil conditions, are an important focus of the course. Technical aspects of plant material selection, nursery practices, planting plan production, and plant specification are discussed, as well as the implications of plant selection on landscape management practices.