Topics discussed include history, design, construction and maintenance. Provides background training in the creation of a professional appearing plot plan. Topics include scales, lettering, and layout for a legible plan. Field trips are an integral part of this class. Topics include common and rare plants, rock gardening, and alpines in pots.
Student creates a pseudo-bonsai and a hypertufa trough.
A field course dealing with actual site analysis of cultural, insect and disease problems as well as approaches toward their control. Explores specific methods of propagation of many herbaceous and woody plants which grow in the Pacific Northwest. HORT 229 and three terms of plant identification or instructor approval. Learn how to incorporate hardy bulbs like daffodils and galanthus into your landscape. Learn the techniques of forcing bulbs.