one (1) credit (approximately 12 "class" hours, 36 homework hours)

meetings: 5-7pm, Hills 234 7/30; field trip 8-6, 8/6 Hort. Farm, So. Burlington

Objectives:

To give you familiarity and more knowledge with various plants, and design styles/ theme gardens.

Assignments

(1000 maximum for course, grades determined on standard 10 point scale ie 90-100=A, 80-89=B, etc.)

1)Paper: You will be expected to write a minimum ten (10) page paper single-spaced (or equivalent double spaced) on a design style/theme/garden type that appeals to you. Examples include Chinese, Japanese, formal, informal, rock, cottage or other. These will be discussed in an overview in the actual class meeting, with time to study references. You may begin this prior to the field trip, or get ideas for such from the field trip and then write the paper. You should discuss such features as history/use of such gardens, characteristics, and some typical plants. Websites and books (UVM, other libraries, bookstores) may be useful references. Grading will be done on completeness, accuracy, and attention to spelling/grammer. 500 points

2)Videos: On the trip or on reserve in the UVM library after, or both, will be 2 videos on gardens elsewhere. You should turn in a minimum one-page paper on each, double spaced, with notes on key points/plants/ideas you learned from the videos. 50 points each, 100 points total

3)Plant list: You should make a list of your top 10 favorite herbaceous plants (indoors or outdoors) seen on the field trip. For each, you should fill out a plant form as handed out, or as available at http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/plntform.htm You may pick a species or cultivar as appropriate for each. Emphasis should be placed on listing 2 or more other plants each will combine well with. You may use as references websites such as http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/lecplnts.html or http://pss.uvm.edu/pss121/plnts121.html

books, or other. Often typing the plant name into a search engine such as Google will yield such websites, often being nurseries. Grading will be done on completeness, accuracy, spelling. 40 points per plant, 400 points total

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