Course Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the use of plant materials in the built environment, drawing upon contemporary approaches to landscape architecture and sustainable landscape design. Practice in these fields increasingly combines ecological and horticultural science with theories of aesthetics to create landscapes that provide ecosystem services in addition to aesthetic value. The course is structured in such a way to provide students with concrete working knowledge - identification and performative characteristics - of approximately 120 plants that are somewhat ubiquitous in the southeast or across the United States with a particular emphasis on plants that are well-adapted to urban situations. In addition to plant identification, the course will provide students with a series of frameworks through which to consider how plants have been or could be utilized, as well as emerging ecological theories such as novel ecosystems.
PLANT WALK 01
Cotinus spp., Smoke tree
Hydrangea paniculata, Panicle Hydrangea
PLANT WALK 02
Magnolia grandiflora, Southern Magnolia
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia Creeper
Plant Walk 03
Ginkgo biloba, Ginkgo
Chrysogonum virginianum, golden knee
Plant Walk 04
Aesculus parviflora, Bottlebrush Buckeye
Cercis canadensis, Eastern Redubud
Plant Walk 05
Dryopteris erythrosora, Autumn Fern
Quercus palustris, Pin Oak