Plant Identification: Shrubs
ARCH X 472.8B
Focusing on understory plants and their communities, instruction focuses on selecting and placing appropriate plant material to influence the landscape architect's overall site composition.
Winter
Classroom
Starting at $925.00
As few as 11 weeks
4.0 Credits
What you can learn.
- Understand the role of plants in articulating landscape spaces
- Identify growth habits, dimensions, cultural requirements, and use of plants in landscape design
- Select plants based on spatial needs/constraints; climate and microclimate; soils; water requirements, etc.
- Identify plants using botanical nomenclature and common names
- Navigate common references to retrieve plant information
About this course:
One of the two required plant material courses, focusing on plants, their communities, and place in the landscape. Instruction focuses on plant materials that often influence the landscape architect's overall site composition. This course focuses on medium-scale materials, such as shrubs, vines, ground covers, and special-effects plants used to fulfill specific site requirements--and companion plant groupings and planting location as design elements. Students take Saturday and Sunday field trips (itinerary discussed at the first class) to urban landscapes, campuses, gardens, arboreta, and nurseries, meeting once (first class) at UCLA in a classroom setting. Students are responsible for their own transportation to remote lecture locations (carpooling is encouraged) and must bring a camera to all classes.
Winter 2019 Schedule
These courses meet in person and make use of an online presence to varying degrees.
Enrollment Closed
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Saturday 9:00AM - 1:00PM
Location:
UCLA
,
Field Trip
Instructor:
Tom Rau
364802
Fee:
$925.00
Notes
No meeting on Jan 19; February 16.
Visitors not permitted. Internet access required. Materials required.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 25, 2019
Course Requirements
Book:
The New Western Garden Book: The Ultimate Gardening Guide (Sunset Western Garden Book (Paper))
by Editors of Sunset Magazine
©2012
Oxmoor House
ISBN 0376039205
Book:
California Native Plants for the Garden
by Carol Bornstein
©2005
Cachuma Press
ISBN 0962850586
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