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| Our design students are busy identifying the plants |
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| And it continues on the studio floor... |
In a fresh and exciting start to the new module 'Selecting
Plants for Designed Landscapes', Jill Raggett gets MA students busy thinking
about the life cycles of a range of collected plant specimens. Once the
specimens on our tables have been arranged from the longest living perennials,
like the veteran English Oak,
Quercus robur, to the short lived but
tenacious Annual Meadow Grass,
Poa annua, Jill shows us how the variable
structures and forms of plants give away their evolutionary strategies, how the
climate and planting conditions can affect the longevity of species, such as
the tender Banana, and how this dynamic coming and going can be choreographed
into a fabulous design dance. Afterwards, it's onto the revision sheets for
next week's plant knowledge test.
Kelly Law
WUC MA Landscape Architecture student
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