Our undergraduate students in Landscape Design and Planning [LDP] prepare to follow a variety of career trajectories in the public and private sectors or to go on to graduate and professional studies in fields like landscape architecture, planning, urban design, architecture, and public policy. They understand landscapes at scales ranging from the garden and park to the city and region.
Courses include traditional lectures and seminars, as well as design studios, where students apply newly acquired skills in a workshop setting. Our faculty brings their research and practice experience into the classroom and encourages students to share their own vision of how landscape design and planning practice can change the world for the better.
Students learn as much outside the classroom as inside the classroom and take advantage of our location in a design-rich urban region. Students can also take advantage of our interdisciplinary study abroad program in Rome and Istanbul in their junior or senior years to add a global perspective to their work.
We also have one of the largest student-practitioner mentoring programs of any North American design college, which underscores the strong ties between the college and talented local practitioners—many of whom teach as adjunct faculty.
Source: landarch.design.umn.edu
Landscaping Tips
Though your home is your castle, there is no necessity to surround it with a moat. Here are 5 tips that will help you to make your landscaping feel more warm, welcoming and cozy.
1. Put some flowers nearby your entrance. Flowers make any area look more welcoming and attractive, so greeting your guests with Petunia, Snapdragon, Lily-of-the-Nile or some other garden flowers is always a great thing to do. What is more, to add some space between your house and the entrance, you can consider adding a little white fence. It will create an illusion that your front yard is bigger than it actually is. What is more, adding fence will create a great space for planting flowers to add some color and coziness.
2. Add rambling vines to make your yard look absolutely lovely. You can not deny that rambling vines always create romantic and even magical atmosphere. So why not to use this tip while decorating your yard?
3. To hide the unattractive driveway, consider adding some color, texture, and height. You can easily do it by adding various sorts of flowers. To start, create an island of green lawn right in the hub of a drive. Then add a couple of low boxwood hedges with flowers toward the back of your island.
4. If you want your yard to blossom and flourish bust still do not have enough time to maintain it, consider planting low-fuss lilies. Such flowers look absolutely gorgeous and come in the variety of rainbow hues, so you can pick the one you love most. What is more, low-fuss lilies do not care about the sort of soil, they love the sun and welcome hot, they do not afraid of drought. In other words, Crinums is an ideal flower for all those who are looking for low-maintenance solutions.
5. The last tip also touches the low-maintenance aspect. To make your life easier, group plantings into beds and islands. This will help you to avoid mowing and trimming around each individual plant, save a lot of time and even money.