Before I attended college I never could find a good resource teaching the ropes of landscape design. Below you will find several links for publications written by K-State Research and Extension. Essentially the topics below are all you'll need for a good foundation on the fundimentials of basic landscape design. Please keep in mind that some of the topics included in these publications are written for Kansas and may need to be altered to better suit your states climate. I'd recommend downloading and printing off each article and keeping each in one three ring binder for future reference. If you have free time, (who does though?) practice your design skills with measuring off property (your own, maybe a part of a public park) and try to deisgn a landscape for it. Good designers are not born overnight. It will take countless hours of practice before you get the hang of it. Hope this is of help to many of you.
Naturalistic Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/c581.pdf
Low Maintenance Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf1046.pdf
Energy Effecient Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/c627.pdf
Residential Landscape Design
Note: For sale only. This large publication can be downloaded by sections, see: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hor...ns/s4p1-14.pdf, then s4p15-31.pdf, s4p32-47.pdf, s4p48-89.pdf, s4p90-95.pdf, s4p96-100.pdf, & s4p101-105.pdf.
Staking and Guying Landscape Trees
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/forst2/mf1120.pdf
Water Conservation in the Home Landscape
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf2066.pdf
The following are videos available for sale only:
Principles of Residential Landscape Design, Part 1 of 2
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/Video/sv430.asp
Principles of Residential Landscape Design, Part 2 of 2
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/Video/sv431.asp
On my next thread I'll describe how to have your client sold on your landscape design.
Naturalistic Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/c581.pdf
Low Maintenance Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf1046.pdf
Energy Effecient Landscaping
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/c627.pdf
Residential Landscape Design
Note: For sale only. This large publication can be downloaded by sections, see: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hor...ns/s4p1-14.pdf, then s4p15-31.pdf, s4p32-47.pdf, s4p48-89.pdf, s4p90-95.pdf, s4p96-100.pdf, & s4p101-105.pdf.
Staking and Guying Landscape Trees
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/forst2/mf1120.pdf
Water Conservation in the Home Landscape
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf2066.pdf
The following are videos available for sale only:
Principles of Residential Landscape Design, Part 1 of 2
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/Video/sv430.asp
Principles of Residential Landscape Design, Part 2 of 2
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/Video/sv431.asp
On my next thread I'll describe how to have your client sold on your landscape design.
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