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Determine client or personal needs for developing the landscape.
- Discuss a client's motivations for purchasing landscaping.
- Explain the techniques behind selling a quality design.
- Describe the business applications for landscaping.
- Perform calculations involved in cost estimating.
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Utilize site analysis and other skills to prepare for developing a landscape design.
- Evaluate and measure a residential site and analyze a client's needs in preparation for preparing a landscape design.
- Describe how to delineate public, private, and service areas.
- Identify circulation routes.
- Explain fundamentals of drainage and perform basic land surveys.
- Map survey results.
- Read and explain topographical maps.
- Calculate gradients and percentage of slope.
- Describe cuts and fill.
3.
Select appropriate plants, equipment and other materials for use in the design.
- Recognize and describe all factors in the selection of plant materials.
- Describe plant hardiness climatic zones.
- Recognize different soil compositions.
- Explain how plants are sized and sold.
- Select non-living and living groundcovers.
- Explain the purposes and use of color.
- Describe where and when to use and not to use embellishments in designs.
- Describe the physical properties of plants and how they are utilized artistically in a landscape design.
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Produce plans of a landscape design.
- Identify the various components and grasp the sequence of events in developing a landscape design.
- Perform design analysis for special purpose buildings.
- Create a unified design by using all the elements required to create it, such as massing and accenting plants.
- Identify various drafting tools and know how to use them.
- Read, write and understand landscape specifications.
- Describe the concept of an "outdoor room" and how to shade, protect and screen these rooms.
- Effectively construct landscape "walls" and understand the sun's path over a property.
- Design decks, walks and patios through the process of creating "outdoor rooms".
- Draw elevational views of buildings and plants.
- Arrange plants in beds and draw bed lines.
- Minimize or maximize architectural features through framing, background and masking.
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