Horticulture 54-Business Aspects of Horticulture
Horticulture 175-Sustainable Landscaping
Horticulture 62 Fall Plant Materials & Design
Horticulture 63 Spring Plant Materials & Design
Horticulture 160B-Edible Landscaping
Horticulture 62 Fall Plant Materials & Design
Fall semester each year
Course Information
Tuesdays:11:10-1:15 Lecture
Tuesdays 2:30-5:35 Lab
Attendance Policy: Attend 13 of 16 class meetings
Class Objectives
1. Study plants suitable for Central California and
include recent introductions into the nursery trade.
2. To encourage students to learn about plants outside the 100 we focus
on and ask questions about any plant they encounter in the landscape in
order to expand their knowledge.
3. To learn to combine plants that create attractive, environmentally
sound and maintainable landscapes through doing a design project.
Texts:
PLANTS & LANDSCAPES FOR SUMMER-DRY
CLIMATES. 2004
East Bay Municipal Utility District.
SUNSET WESTERN GARDEN BOOK, 2007 edition
Class Assignments
Take Home Midterm consisting of short answer questions & plant identification flash cards.
Design Project: A planting design project chosen from 2 sites visited in class, with a base plan provided.
Final Exam: Field identification of 30 plants studied. Takes place on campus.
Labs
Lab # 02
Lab 02 List of plants seen today 2011
Lab # 03
Lab 03-Plant List of plants seen today 2011
Baccharis pilularis 'Twin Peaks'
Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis
Lyonothamnus floribundus var. asplenifolius
Lab # 04
Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold'
Lab # 05
Arctostaphylos bakeri 'Louis Edmunds'
Lab # 06
Fraxinus angustifolia/oxycarpa
Lab # 07
Lab # 08
Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard McMinn'
Lab # 09
Lab # 10
Lab # 11
Escallonia x exoniensis Frades
Lavandula angustifolia, L. dentata, L. stoechas
Lab # 12
Rosmarinus officinalis prostratus
Lab # 13A - Downtown Santa Cruz
Lab # 13B - available on Monday November 22
Lectures
Lecture # 3 Mediterranean Plants & Plant Communities
Lecture # 7 Tools for Planting/Landscape Plans
Lecture #11 is the last half of Lecture #10-History and is linked
Lecture # 12-Creating a Fire Resistant Landscape
No lecture # 13
Grading Choices
Letter Grade:
Attendance & Participation 15%
Midterm 35%
Design Project or Research Project 35%
Final 15%
TOTAL 100%
Credit/No Credit:
Attendance at 13 of 16 class meetings and completion of one major component - the midterm or the design project.