Name _______________________ # _______
Horticulture Final Project
Instead of taking a cumulative final exam, you will select one of the projects below. You will
have two class days in the computer lab to complete your assignment. Take this final seriously
as it is worth 75 points, which is 20% of your grade.
Your completed assignment is due at the beginning of the hour on _______________________.
Project Options
1. Landscape Drawing
Design a beautiful home and a luxurious landscape, drawing everything to scale. Your
landscape design must include at least 20 difference plants with 5 being trees or shrubs.
Be sure to include a key with plant name, color, height, and time of bloom. (Many
people lost points for incomplete keys earlier in the quarter.) You may use all the
equipment and supplies you used earlier during the landscape design unit.
2. Horticulture Article Review
Select 5 articles written after 2002 from the following website:
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/archives.htm
For each of your five articles, complete a “Horticulture Article Review Sheet” found on
the course website on Centerpoint. Please turn in a typed product.
3. Reference Book
Refresh your memory on plant parts and growth requirements. Using this information,
create a reference book and be sure to include pictures. Include all items listed below
explaining each in detail, and add more as desired.
 Roots, stems, leaves, flowers: parts and functions
 Growth requirements: water, sunlight, fertilizer, soil …
4. Plant Identification Card Set
Develop a set of 20 – 3x5 inch note cards for 20 different plants. Select your plants from
the list found on the course website on Centerpoint titled “Plant list”. Including the
following information on each card name (scientific and common), characteristics, uses,
picture.
Horticulture