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WebPortal into Landscape Horticulture
Landscapes
What are they? How do landscapes relate to modern life?
Scope of the 'Constructed Landscape' for Landscape
Horticulture
- Residential Landscapes (Gardens)
- Commercial Landscapes
Landscapes and human history: how people have modified landscapes
to suit their needs.
- Domestication of plants (for food and for pleasure)
Origins of Horticulture -
Here is your starting point for an overview of the origins of
Landscape Horticulture.
- Landscapes for pleasure: parks, gardens, golf courses
- Landscapes for production
- Plant exploration.
- Landscape styles (for example: european, japanese/chinese,
modern american, etc)
- Plants for special meaning: How plants are used for expressing
emotion, altering perception, improving health, expressing faith
(religion)
- Learn about Horticulture
Therapy, a specialization that uses horticultural
activities for physical therapy.
- Look at the history
website from Freeman Howlett's class
notes.
This is a chronological compilation of important
contributors to Horticulture. For each individual there are
additional internet links of interest. Make sure to check out John
Gerard (16 th Century); John Bartram (17 th Century); Lancelot
Brown , Linnaeus (18 th Century); Liberty Hyde Bailey, Luther
Burbank, Andrew Jackson Downing, Gertrude Jekyll, Frederik Law
Olmsted (19 th and 20 th Centuries). An excellent resource!
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