Horticulture 269 presented itself as an overtly challenging course structured to weed out those who truly do not belong. It is taught by two professors, Stearns & McGann and has a run time of 2.5 hours per class. The purpose of this course, as noted in the title, is to teach students how to prepare professional landscape design plans for residential properties.

The class is geared to have copious amounts of practice exercises and 1 major landscape design plan. The photos at the bottom are of our project house. The project clients are a young couple with 2 children who are looking for a progressive landscape plan that they can work with over a 15 year period.

Considering their budget and what they want accomplished, this landscape will be broken into more than a dozen phases. That having been said, the design process for this project presented many challenges. Challenges such as steep grade, close proximity to neighbors, and a flood plane to the rear. The lot itself is rectangular in shape and measures 165' (ft.) long by 95' (ft.) wide. Some of the clients wants included; a large patio area to the rear for entertainment, spa, brick paver driveway, redesigned planting beds, additional fruiting trees, gazebo, and an outdoor kitchen.

With a modest budget, the ability to design in phases proved to be a viable necessity. As we progressed further and further into this class, it became the most enjoyable of all my other classes. Professors Stearns and McGann have a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience between them, and they are the reason why the Landscape Contracting program is what it is today.

Listed below are picture galleries that better explain what the course's ultimate goal is. The first set of pictures are of the project house and surrounding area. Following that will be images of preliminary design plans and base maps. (some of these will have comments from Prof. McGann.)