Landscaping II Warnborough College

Overview

You learn to design and build such things as walls, rockeries, steps, ponds, and paving; and you develop skills to create specific effects in a garden.

Key facts

Aims of the Landscaping II course from Warnborough College:

• Determine landscape materials readily available in the learners locality, including: soils, gravels, mulches and timbers.

• Differentiate between landscape applications for twenty different types of timber.

• Compare a range of materials in terms of function and aesthetics, including five types of mulches and five types of gravels.

• Determine applications for five different specific items of machinery in landscape construction including a chainsaw, an earth moving machine, a rotary hoe and a tractor.

• List minimum equipment required to construct two different landscapes in accordance with project specifications.

• Determine criteria for selecting plants to be planted in 3 specified locations.

• Explain the impact of trees in two specific landscapes, on both the environment and aesthetics of those landscapes.

• Determine twenty different herbaceous plants, to grow in three different specified locations within the same garden.

• Prepare a design for an annual flower display bed of 50 sq. metres.

• List five groundcovers suited to plant in four different situations, including full shade , half shade, full sun and hanging baskets.

• Prepare a planting design for a 100 sq. metre area of garden, using only groundcovers and trees.

• List ten trees suited to each of the following cultural situations, in your locality: waterlogged soil; sandy soil; heavy soil; saline soil; fire prone sites and near drainage pipes.