Computer Landscape Design

for CLC Horticulture Building

Computer Landscape Design HRT 215

Instructor Yi Kuo

Prepared by Ann Gusfield

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Google Earth View

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Photos of Site: Front view

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Photos of Site: Path view

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Photos of Door Entrance

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Photos of Drainage

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Design Overview

Create inviting entrance

Consider use by students and community

Connect the past with the present

Seek to use local resources

Use appropriate plant materials for site

Work with drainage and greenhouse issues

Involve Department personnel

Low maintenace

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Plant Selection Plan

Climbing roses, clematis, squash to climb arbor

4’ shrubs for bed outline

30’ tree for focal point

Bioswale of natives in drainage areas

Hardy salt tolerant plants for sidewalk edge

Plant material deer resistant

Hardy perennials for west sun/ wind exposure

Small annual bed with vegetables, flowers, herbs

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Hardscape Design Plan

Pergola to extend over sidewalk

Sculpture reflecting history, i.e. wheelbarrow

Trellis to cover light pole’s concrete base

Bench on gravel patio

Pea gravel base surrounding greenhouse

Signage for department and community garden

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Master plan LA1

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Design Plan Detail A

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Design Plan Detail B

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Site Analysis LA2

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Plant selection: Shrubs

• Amelanchier canadensis Serviceberry 3

• Potentilla fruticosa 'Abbotsford' Potentilla 18

• Buxus 'Glencoe' Boxwood 18

• Hypericum prolificum St. John’sWort 18

• Cotoneaster apiculatis Cranberry cotoneaster 6

• Fothergilla gardenii Dwarf fothergilla 22

• Syringa patula ‘Miss Kim’ Miss Kim Lilac 6

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Botanic name Common Name Quantity

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Plant selection: Perennials

Hemerocallis Daylily

Lamium maculatum Dead nettle

Clematis jackmanii Clematis

Clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’ Sweet autumn clematis

Botanic name Common Name

Bioswale Plants: height less than 3 ft

Alisma triviale Large flowered plantain

Cephalanthus occidentalis Buttonbush

Iris virginica shrevei Blue flag iris

Helenium autumnale Sneezeweed

Hystrix patula Bottlebrush grass

Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal Flower

Plant selection: Focal tree and

Light Post

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Amelanchier X Grandiflora Serviceberry

Vines for light post:

Clematis or squash vine

Planting Details LA3

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Hardscape Selections: Arbor

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Hardscape Selection:

Sculpture

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Hardscape : Bench

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Hardscape: Sidewalk Corner

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Hardscape Construction

Details LA4

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