Plants! You eat them. You wear them. You drink their products (and by-products). You give flowers to loved ones, and lounge or play on the grass. Hort 1101 will help you get to know plants better through field trips, lectures and labs. Learn what plants need, how they function, where they came from, how we breed and propagate them, and how they can be grown in sustainable systems and provide vital ecological services.

• Course outline.

Did you ever want to learn how to graft trees, force tulips, prune shrubs, fertilize your lawn properly, grow vegetables or arrange flowers? This course is for students who are not plant scientists, yet want to learn about gardening and gain hands-on skills that will last a lifetime.  Each class has culinary experience related to the subject for the day, and the course ends with an all-day field trip to professors' back yards. 

• Syllabus.

Learn the latest in plant care for landscapes and green roofs. Understand and troubleshoot problems involving soil, water, weeds, nutrients and more. Develop tree climbing skills to perform preventive pruning and manage hazardous trees.

• Course topics

This course gives students a chance to experience the all the ways in which art and horticulture come together to form unique 2- and 3-dimensional works such as living sculpture, fibers and dye, watercolor and written expression. 

• Visit the Art of Horticulture website.
• Syllabus.

Especially tailored for plant  science and landscape architecture majors, you'll learn to identify 350 trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers and how to use them in urban landscape plantings and gardens.  The focus is on understanding plants environmental needs in order to get the right plant in the right place.  Students learn to  analyze a site,  design the landscape,  remediate the soil and install a landscape  on campus using the latest Sustainable Site Initiative guidelines as a hands-on capstone integrating theory and practice.

• Woody plants database - Serves as a 'virtual text' for the courses.
• Hort 4910:  Syllabus | Schedule
• Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment is also cross listed in Landscape Architecture as LA 4910 & 4920.