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Preparing Your Landscape Site: A Comprehensive Guide for Students

This guide provides essential objectives for students learning to prepare a landscape site effectively. It covers how to read and interpret landscape plans, protect existing features, and remove unwanted site elements. Students will analyze soil quality and understand the importance of scale and symbols in landscape planning. Through hands-on activities, learners will create their own landscape plans using simple materials, ensuring they can translate design ideas into reality and implement the necessary landscaping features.

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Preparing Your Landscape Site: A Comprehensive Guide for Students

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  1. Preparing the landscape site Ms. Gripshover Landscaping Unit 14

  2. Our Objectives • Read a site analysis or landscape plan. • Explain how to interpret a landscape plan. • Describe how to protect existing site features. • Describe how to remove site features that are unwanted. • Analyze and prepare soil for planting.

  3. Refresher • Landscape Plan • Symbols are used in a landscape plan and scale is also used in a plan to show what the plan will look like when its complete • Typically the plants are drawn at the size they will be full grown • Site analysis- rough sketch showing existing features of a landscape

  4. HOW CAN STUDENTS READ A LANDSCAPE PLAN TO EFFECTIVELY INSTALL A LANDSCAPE DESIGN? • Must be able to read plan to install correctly • Similar to reading a map • Must understand symbols • Identify, draw, and read simple landscape symbols • Read and interpret measurements • Be able to use architect’s scale & engineer’s scale

  5. How can students take the information shown in a landscape plan and implement it into the construction of the design? • A plan tells you many things such as: • Where plants go • Paths and patios • Water features • Taking measurement from paper to real life requires being able to read a scale, use a scale, and translate into reality • Generating a list of plant material help to establish pricing as well as ordering • Hardscaping- use of non- living material like: • Paths, patios, walkways, etc.

  6. Your Task • We will be using your desk, post it notes, and other simples materials to draw a landscape plan • Post notes will represent the plants • You will need to get: • A ruler, 5 post it notes • We will be using 1/8” scale • Put two plants (one in each corner) in the upper portion of your “plan” • They should both be 2’ away from each the sides and the top • Place a plant directly in the center of your “plan” • Now, take two more plants and place them on the bottom of your “plan”, 3 feet away from the bottom and exactly right in the middle of the two plants you already placed

  7. How did you do??? • Ms. G. Will Check

  8. How can existing site features be protected from damage in the installation process? • One reason to keep everything protected is to make the customer happy • Soil compaction- roots are unable to get enough oxygen because the soil has been compacted usually from heavy machinery • Use routes to avoid potential damage to roots and utility lines • Portable fencing should also be placed around the drip line of trees • Dripline- the outermost leaves of the canopy reach; where rainwater drips from the leaf tips, most of the roots are in this region

  9. How can one remove unwanted site features? • Sometimes living & non- living features need to be removed • Small trees can be dug up (and often times moved elsewhere) and large trees may need to be removed with a tree spade or cut down • What other features may need to be removed?

  10. How can students analyze the quality of the soil so that soil amendments can be properly applied? • A soil analysis determines the type and quality of soil • Soil amendments- something that is added to improve soil quality • Soil fertility- the ability of a soil to provide nutrients for plant growth

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