Landscaping Design Checklist
The following is a list of items you should be able to explain before you have completed
your design project.
Does your design include the following?
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Rules of the outdoor room concept?
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Reduce water on the lawn.
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Are all symbols drawn correctly?
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If your lawn has a slope, are plants you selected suitable?
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Rules of simplicity, balance, proportion, focalization, rhythm and line are used.
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Corner planting- incurve and outcurve is utilized.
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Labeling is consistent.
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Are plants selected suitable for the zone?
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Be able to describe the plants used including height, form, color, flowers,
maintenance needed, type of lighting, special features, diseases, or insects.
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What types of mulch are being used, where and why?
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Include scale and directional arrows.
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Plant list should include scientific, common name, mature size, and quantity.
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Are the house and plant materials drawn to scale?
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Title box should include designers name, dates, and name of customer, and
address of property.
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Use this property and measurements for your landscape design.
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Name
Landscape Project Evaluation (160 points)
1. Describe the setting of your landscape. (4 points)
2. What are three words that best describe your landscape. (3 points)
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3. What is the best feature of your landscape and why? (4 points)
4. What is the worst feature of your landscape and why? (4 points)
5. List all the trees you have on your landscape and why they are placed where they
are. (10 points)
Tree Name
Why you placed it there?
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6. List all the shrubs you have on your landscape and why they placed where they are.
(15 points)
Shrub Name
Why you placed it there?
7. What is the focal point of your landscape and how was it developed? (3 points)
Focal Point
How was it developed?
8. Describe the area on your landscape which would be considered the private area.
(3 points)
9. Describe the area on your landscape which would be considered the service area.
(3 points)
10. Describe the area on your landscape which would be considered the public area.
(3 points)
11. Describe the area on your landscape which would be considered the family living
area. (3 points)
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12. List all the construction materials you have used and why they are places where
they are. (10 points)
Construction
Material
Amount Needed
Why you placed it there?
13. Using the principles of arranging plant materials describe how each are used in your
landscape. (6 points)
Corner Planting
Line Planting
Foundation Planting
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14. Using the following principles of landscape design describe how each are used in
your landscape. (10 points)
Simplicity
Balance
Proportion
Focalization
Rhythm and Line
15. What on your landscape would you consider to be beyond the
normal/basic/plane/dull features? (3 points)
16. What is the most positive aspect of your landscape? (3 points)
17. What is the hardest landscape feature to deal with? (3 points)
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18. List 15 measurements to using a scale and converting to feet.
(15 points)
Measurement in Feet
Start Point
End Point
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Scientific Name
PLANT LIST (20 points)
Alphabetical Order by Scientific Name
Common Name
Quantity
Mature size of plant
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Have a classmate critique your design (10 points)
Peer Critiquer Name :
What catches you eye about this design?
Is the design neat, both in the symbols and labeling?
What design principles were used and how?
List 2 positives about this landscape.
List 2 aspects to be worked on in this landscape.
On a scale of 1-10 (10 being great, what would you rate this design?
Peer critique someone else’s design (10 points)
Name of students that you critiqued:
What catches you eye about this design?
Is the design neat, both in the symbols and labeling?
What design principles were used and how?
List 2 positives about this landscape.
List 2 aspects to be worked on in this landscape.
On a scale of 1-10 (10 being great, what would you rate this design?
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Suggested Plants (Zone 4)
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