The Landscape Design and Planning major focuses on the newest integrative process of landscape design and planning needed to reverse the detrimental environmental effects of many past and current practices. Its two tracks, landscape design and landscape planning, give focus to the principal scales of practical landscape architectural applications. Sustainable landscape is a global and cultural imperative.
Landscape designers and planners use an array of practices and skills to meet this complex challenge in the creation of livable communities and places. Landscape designers and planners incorporative innovative and tried-and-true methods with new and diverse tools and technologies to transform and induce a new resiliency in the landscape.
The BED serves as an excellent foundation to prepare for the master of landscape architecture degree (MLA), the degree required to become a licensed landscape architect, or for the master of urban and regional planning degree. The Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Design offers the MLA as well as the master of science (MS) degrees for students interested in research in landscape architecture.
Source: 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.