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Course Description
The enjoyment of a beautiful landscape is one of the great pleasures of home ownership. However, actually realizing your landscaping visions can be stressful Frequently you have a bare dirt and poor grass yard or an all grass yard and you just don't know where to start. This online course can help. Landscaping 101 will not only teach you the basics of the science of landscaping, it will show you how to apply your own creativity to transform your yard into a work of art.
In this course you will:
Learn the basics of landscaping including harmony, balance, color, natural transitions, proportion and line.
Learn how to assess your present landscape needs.
Learn how to assess the purpose of your landscape.
Learn how to gather ideas and whether to use professional help or not.
Learn how to plan your landscape, and schedule the work.
Learn how to avoid common landscaping mistakes.
Learn how to make the most of what you have.
This starter course is ideal for anyone -- whether you just want to improve one corner of the yard, or you want to add some flowerbeds or a tree or shrub here and there, or you're starting from scratch with a bare lot and need to learn how to start, plan, and finish an entire landscape.
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Describe the importance of dirt.
Assess your landscaping needs.
Create a 3 year plan.
Define planning specifics.
Estimate the costs.
Create design styles for outdoor living.
Describe outdoor rooms.
Describe ways to select the right plants, trees, and shrubs, and
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Introduction and the Importance of Dirt
A good landscape will provide recreation, privacy, and pleasure to the owners. This lesson will discuss the tools and planning needed to create your landscape.
Lesson 2: Assessing Your Landscaping Needs
The process of assessing your landscaping needs and finding the best solutions is essential to creating an effective landscape.
Lesson 3: Mistakes and Planning
This lesson addresses how to avoid problems and mistakes while planning your landscape.
Lesson 4: Starting and a Three Year Plan
In this lesson, we will discuss how to get started and a basic three year plan for developing your landscape.
Lesson 5: Planning Specifics
This lesson shows you how to draw up a base plan and landscape plan.
Lesson 6: Estimation the Costs
In this lesson, you will receive a general idea about how much plants, decorative designs, and soil will cost.
Lesson 7: Design for Outdoor Living
This lesson discusses some ways to dress and light up your outdoor living space.
Lesson 8: Outdoor Rooms
This lesson discusses porches and hideaways.
Lesson 9: How to Select the Right Plants and Things
This lesson will discuss how to choose the right garden ornaments.
Lesson 10: Soil and Other Preparations
This lesson explains the properties of soil including pH balance and acidity levels.
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment.
This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, certification or educational requirements.
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