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Faculty
The following faculty are involved in teaching, research and outreach related to landscape design, management, and/or restoration. Click on each name to go to a detailed description.
Susan Galatowitsch is an ecologist with a focus on the revegetation of natural communities. She currently is investigating problems of plant establishment in restored wetlands and is working to develop techniques to assess wetland restoration success. She teaches restoration ecology and landscape ecology.
Mary Meyer is interested in low maintenance alternative lawns and prairie restoration. She coordinates the Master Gardener program.
Peter Olin is director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and is interested in landscape design of arboreta and botanic gardens.
Eric Watkins is involved in the development and use of low-input turfgrass species for home lawns, parks, and other turf areas.
Courses
The following courses relate to landscape design, management, and restoration:
Hort 5071 Restoration and Reclamation Ecology. Ecological and physiological concepts as a basis for the revegetation of grasslands, wetlands, forests, and other landscapes. Plant selection, stand establishment, evaluating revegetation success. State and federal programs that administer restoration and reclamation programs. Field trips in several areas of Minnesota.
Hort 4021 - Landscape Design and Implementation I. Based on philosophy of sustainable landscape theory and practice. This approach stresses sustainability as it relates to all phases of landscape development including design, plant selection, implementation and management.
Hort 4022 - Applications in Computer-Aided Design for Landscapes. Provides training in computer-aided design and related software porgrams for use in developing landscape design solutions. Focus on practical, real life application s of the software. Students will apply their creativity in the development of base plans, concept, and draft designs and the completed landscape design.
Hort 4023- Landscape Design and Implementation II. Residential, commercial and recreational sites. Architectural and graphic techniques, plan drawings, sections elevations, perspectives and working drawings. Emphasis on grading and site manipulation including surveying, irrigation and drainage. Development of business and grounds management plans. Landscape estimating and bidding.
Hort 5018 - Landscape Operations and Management. Planting and maintenance of herbaceous and woody plants, arboriculture, landscape and turf irrigation, general and residential turfgrass maintenance, granular and liquid calibration, and fundamentals of surveying. One credit project/paper.
Laboratories:
Display and Trial Garden
Landscape Design Studio
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