Landscaping Careers
Principles of Design
Landscape Design Process
Planting & Maintenance
Landscaping
Tools
100
A person interested in designing, installing, and maintaining the outdoor environment around homes is interested in this career area
What is landscaping?
100
Installing the same amount of plants on each side of the door
What is balance?
100
This type of plan is used when installing materials at the job site
What is the final plan?
100
This is used to prevent moisture loss and control weeds in a flower bed
What is mulch?
100
This should be used to remove a broken limb that is about 12' up the tree
What is a pole pruner?
200
A person who cares for a previously-installed landscape is involved in this area of the landscaping industry
What is landscape maintenance?
200
Maintaining the size relationship between plants and buildings
What is proportion?
200
This type of plan gives the designer an idea of the general layout of the property
What is the functional diagram?
200
Opening up a plant up, but keeping its natural shape
What is thinning?
200
This should be used to remove growth that is 1/4" in diameter
What are hand shears?
300
A person who plans and designs outdoor environments
What is a landscape architect?
300
Repeating the same plant species
What is unity?
300
This type of landscape plan will likely be changed several times to include the client's wishes
What is the preliminary design?
300
The function of the circular mounded soil placed around newly planted trees and shrubs
What is catching and holding water?
300
Use this tool to remove limbs that are 1" in diameter from a tree
What are lopping shears?
400
A person who grows, cares for, and installs plants such as trees and shrubs
What is a landscape nursery worker?
400
Using only a few different colors or shapes in a landscape
What is simplicity?
400
The last step in the landscape project development
What is billing the customer?
400
The shape of the bottom of a hole for bare-root trees
What is a dome?
400
Limbs and trees larger than 3" in diameter should be cut with this
What is a chainsaw?
500
A person who does work such as installing pools, stonework, or electrical work for a contractor
What is a subcontractor?
500
Installing a corner planting to draw the eye of the viewer to that place
What is focalization (of interest)?
500
A landscaping business that handles everything from the first contact with the client through design and construction as well as long-term care and maintenance
What is a design-build firm?
500
Roses and other plants that produce flowers on wood produced the same growing season should be pruned at this time
What is early spring?
500
Pruning tools should be kept sharp and clean for this reason
What is safety?
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