The Canopied Landscape: Woodlands, Edges, & Hedgerows

Start Date
07/25/2023
End Date
07/25/2023
Description
An ecology-based approach to woodland design is more like guiding a vegetative process than implementing a static planting plan. Guided succession can foster the orderly transformation from an open field to a multi-tiered forest through planting, managed natural recruitment, or a combination of the two. Under existing canopy, where few herbaceous species can be established through direct seeding, we will discuss the planting of small “seed source colonies,” and management strategies to encourage their proliferation into the larger landscape. Management techniques that are unique to woodlands including selective height cutting, sunlight manipulation, and assisted seed dispersal, will also be described in detail.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Design-Build
Horticulture / Plants
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
3.0
Learning Outcomes
Examine overall planting design techniques that are unique to vertically layered woodland and hedgerow landscapes.
Learn about useful criteria for the selection and combination of woodland/hedgrow species using a 'plant community' approach.
Examine individual woodland/meadow species, looking at their relevant ecological characteristics as well as their practical and aesthetic attributes.
Instructors
Larry Weaner, FAPLD
Course Codes
Provider
New Directions in the American Landscape


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