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Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology Envir

Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology Environmental Horticulture Department. Overview. The unbreakable bond: Design and Maintenance Plant Selection: Right Plant, Right Place Lawns and Bedlines : Keep it together

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Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology Envir

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  1. Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology Environmental Horticulture Department

  2. Overview The unbreakable bond: Design and Maintenance Plant Selection: Right Plant, Right Place Lawns and Bedlines: Keep it together Examples You’re on your own!

  3. Designing for Maintenance Relationship between design and maintenance Property values Landscapes change

  4. Maintenance and Design? Interrelated aspects of landscape management Similar principles Good design opens the door to good maintenance practices One or the other…or both

  5. Property Values • Designed landscape increased value up to 42% • Sophisticated vs. Minimal • Plant selection • Plant size

  6. Maintenance and Design Good design can solve or prevent problems Maintenance has the last word

  7. Relative Maintenance Requirements

  8. Landscape Components • Right Plant, Right Place! • Mature height AND width • Cultural needs • Soil • Light • Temperature

  9. Landscape Components • Right Plant, Right Place • Not just cultural needs • Consider habit • Consider form

  10. Landscape Components • High-input plants in high-impact areas

  11. Lawns and Bedlines Right plant, right place! Proportion Who’s doing the work? Turf is not a default option

  12. Surfaces Maintenance Requirements

  13. “Impossible” Areas

  14. Lawns and Beds • Bedlines • Watch intersections • Keep angles right or obtuse • Don’t leave your turf lonely

  15. Lawns and Bedlines • Bedlines • Edging • Mission impossible?

  16. Lawns and Bedlines

  17. Lawns and Bedlines

  18. Lawns and Bedlines Two lines to edge! • Minimize unnecessary maintenance • Upkeep • Edging • Mowing

  19. Case Studies! Let’s look at a few examples…

  20. Case Studies! Now get outside and find your own!…

  21. Thank you! • Questions? • Contact Erin Alvarez at erinalvarez@ufl.edu

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