The Canopied Landscape: Woodlands, Edges, & Hedgerows

Start Date

08/13/2024

End Date

08/13/2024

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

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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