Landscape Design, Construction, and Maintenance

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Landscape Design, Construction, and Maintenance

• Intro to Hort

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What is Landscape Design?

• Definition
• Landscape
• the landforms of a region in the aggregate
• Design
• to create, fashion, execute, or construct
  according to plan
• ThereforeLandscape design is???
• Construction?
• Maintenance?

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What does landscape design entail?

• Maintenance
• Installation
• Architecture
• Sales
• Horticulturalist
• Interior
• Irrigation
• Nursery

• Mechanic
• Golf Course
• Applicator
• Administrative

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Who can use landscaping services?

• Businesses
• Examples???
• Homeowners
• Schools
• Apartment complexes
• Who else??

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How about degrees dealing with landscapes?

• Landscape Architecture
• Landscape Design
• Horticulture
• Entomology

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Types of Degrees

• B.S.
• M.S.
• M.A.
• Paraprofessional
• Associate

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What colleges offer those degrees?
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How about some careers?

• Estimator
• Crew member
• Crew leader
• Project Director
• Landscape Architect
• Landscape designer
• Gardner
• Plant Health Care Specialist

• Arborist
• Interior Specialist
• Irrigation Specialist
• Irrigation Technician
• Nursery Sales
• Mechanic
• Pesticide Applicator

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More jobs???

• How about jobs without a degree??
• How about jobs with postgraduate training??

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT!!!

• PART I
• Make a poster advertising a business for 1 career
  dealing with landscape design, construction, or
  maintenance
• Work in pairs (not 3 or 4)
• Include as much information as possible about the
  business

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT!!!

• PART II
• You must present your poster to your classmates
  in the form of a sales pitch
• Your classmates in turn are able to ask you any
  questions about your business
• The harder the questions the better!!