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Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology Environmental Horticulture Department. Overview. The unbreakable bond: Design and Maintenance Plant Selection: Right Plant, Right Place Lawns and Bedlines : Keep it together - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance
Erin AlvarezCenter for Landscape Conservation and EcologyEnvironmental Horticulture Department
Overview
• The unbreakable bond: Design and Maintenance• Plant Selection: Right Plant, Right Place• Lawns and Bedlines: Keep it together• Examples• You’re on your own!
Designing for Maintenance
• Relationship between design and maintenance• Property values• Landscapes change
Maintenance and Design?
• Interrelated aspects of landscape management
• Similar principles• Good design opens the door to
good maintenance practices• One or the other…or both
Property Values
• Designed landscape increased value up to 42%– Sophisticated vs. Minimal– Plant selection– Plant size
Maintenance and Design
• Good design can solve or prevent problems• Maintenance has the last word
Relative Maintenance Requirements
Turf
Special Care
PlantsBedding Plants
Ground-cover
Shrubs
Trees
Landscape Components
• Right Plant, Right Place!– Mature height AND width– Cultural needs• Soil• Light• Temperature
Landscape Components
• Right Plant, Right Place– Not just cultural needs– Consider habit – Consider form
Landscape Components
• High-input plants in high-impact areas
Lawns and Bedlines
• Right plant, right place!• Proportion• Who’s doing the work?• Turf is not a default option
Surfaces Maintenance Requirements
Turf
Bare soil
GravelStone set in sand
Asphalt
Mortared stone
Concrete
“Impossible” Areas
Lawns and Beds• Bedlines – Watch intersections– Keep angles right or obtuse– Don’t leave your turf lonely
Lawns and Bedlines
• Bedlines – Edging– Mission impossible?
Lawns and Bedlines
Lawns and Bedlines
Lawns and Bedlines
• Minimize unnecessary maintenance– Upkeep– Edging – Mowing
Two lines to edge!
Case Studies!
• Let’s look at a few examples…
Case Studies!
• Now get outside and find your own!…