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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to Today's Landscaping | |
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| The Landscape Planners | |
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| Standards of Practice and Professional Responsibilities of Landscape Designers | |
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| The Landscape Plan | |
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| The Sequence of Building a Landscape | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Design Analysis | |
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| Site Analysis | |
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| Analysis of People's Needs | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Areas and Circulation | |
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| Defining Areas in the Landscape | |
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| Circulation | |
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| Decks and Patios | |
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| The Circulation Elements | |
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| The Outdoor Room | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Studying the Land Forms | |
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| Drainage | |
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| Surveying | |
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| Mapping Survey Results | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Planning the Alteration of Land Forms | |
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| Designing for Grading | |
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| Grading Methods | |
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| Designing Terraces | |
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| Designing Retaining Walls | |
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| Berms in the Landscape | |
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| Final Notes about Grading | |
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| Subsurface Drainage | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| The Walls and Ceiling | |
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| The Walls of the Landscape | |
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| Choosing Between Structural and Plant Materials | |
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| The Ceiling of the Landscape | |
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| Special Considerations: Walls and Ceiling Arrangements | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Principles of Planting Design | |
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| The Physical Properties of Plants | |
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| Unity in Design | |
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| Applying Principles to Design | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Plantings and Architecture | |
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| Elevations of Architecture | |
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| Balancing Structural and Plant Masses | |
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| Enframement | |
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| Focal Points | |
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| Background | |
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| Trees for Masking | |
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| Berms and Architecture | |
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| Texture and Architecture | |
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| Colors and Architecture | |
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| Visual Interest: Architecture or Plantings? | |
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| Final Points: Designing Plantings with Architecture | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Matching Plant Materials to Design Criteria | |
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| Specifications for Plant Selection | |
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| Plant Sizes at Purchase | |
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| Plant Conditions at Purchase | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Covering the Ground | |
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| Ground Patterns | |
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| Flooring | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Embellishments | |
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| Flowers | |
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| Nonessential Construction Features | |
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| Sculpture and Statuary | |
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| Water Features | |
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| Collected Embellishments | |
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| Musical Enrichments | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Special Landscape Problems: Business and Rental Properties | |
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| The Profit Motive | |
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| Business Applications for Landscaping | |
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| Applications for Landscaping Rental Properties | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Specifications, Estimations, and Bids | |
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| Landscape Specifications | |
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| Obtaining Prices from Contractors | |
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| Making Cost Estimates | |
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| Calculations in Estimating | |
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| Planimeters and Digitizers | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| The Role of the Designer/Salesperson | |
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| Motivations for Purchasing | |
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| The Sales Education | |
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| Qualifications of a Salesperson | |
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| Development of a Clientele | |
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| Sales Strategies | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Computers in Landscape Design | |
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| CAD Systems | |
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| Computer Imaging | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Designing Automatic Irrigation Systems | |
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| Site Analysis and Layout | |
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| Sprinkler Head Layout | |
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| Zoning the System | |
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| Piping the System | |
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| Final Design Notes | |
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| Designing Rotary Systems | |
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| Computer-Aided-Drafting (CAD) | |
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| Points to Remember | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Practical Tip from a Practicing Designer | |
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| Plant Materials Guidelists | |
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| Shade Trees | |
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| Small Ornamental Trees | |
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| Deciduous Ornamental Shrubs | |
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| Broadleaf Evergreen Shrubs | |
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| Narrowleaf Evergreen Trees | |
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| Narrowleaf Evergreen Shrubs | |
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| Specialty Plants | |
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| Groundcovers | |
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| Vines | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Cross-Index: Common Names to Botanical Names | |
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| Measurements and Weights | |
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| Metric Conversion Data | |
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| Cubic Volume Table | |
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| Helpful Organizations | |
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| Bibliography and Suggested References | |
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| Index | |