Registration Eligibility
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Start Date
02/02/2018
End Date
02/01/2020
Description
More than half the world’s population now live in cities. Planting design needs to respond to a range of urban environmental challenges. Join some of the country’s leading practitioners to explore strategies inspired by wild plant communities that result in more robust, diverse, and resilient plantings.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Horticulture / Plants
Sustainable Development & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.50
Learning Outcomes
Analyze differences between the way plants grow in the wild and the way they grow in designed landscapes.
Explore the competitive strategies of plants in naturally occurring communities to understand how these can be used to inform plant selection and arrangement.
Examine strategies for creating aesthetic frames around mixed planting to make them attractive and appealing to the public.
Understand how to creatively manage mixed plantings by looking at ten years of experience at The Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
Instructors
Scott Stewart, Lurie Garden; Thomas Rainer, ASLA, Rhodeside & Harwell; Claudia West, MLA, North Creek Nurseries
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects