Plant User Handbook

A guide to effective specifying

James Hitchmough, Ken Fieldhouse

388 pages, parution le 01/11/2003

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Résumé

Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation.

Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are professionally engaged in the use of plants in public, commercial and institutional landscapes. Planting schemes are undertaken on the basis of a binding contract - generally between the client (who owns or leases the landscape) and the implementer (the landscape contractor), with the designer acting both as specifier and contract administrator. Within this contractual relationship, planting schemes must be implemented to an agreed timetable. To manage this procedure efficiently, landscape designers and managers need quick access to the factual and scientific background for practical planting design and its implementation through specification writing and contracts.

The book covers over 20 well defined topics, and is written by leading experts in the industry. It is arranged into five sections:

Preliminaries to plant use and the landscape
Managing plant growth on landscape sites
Establishment and management of trees
Establishment and management of smaller woody plants
Establishment and management of herbaceous plants

Carefully illustrated with diagrams, black and white photographs and colour plates, this handbook provides a unique resource for professionals wanting to improve their specification skills, as well as to explore creative approaches to design and practical implementation.

L'auteur - James Hitchmough

James Hitchmough is Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture and has a wide-ranging interest in the use of vegetation in landscape design management.

L'auteur - Ken Fieldhouse

Ken Fieldhouse was a qualified Landscape Architecture and trained Town Planner. He was editor of Landscape Design Journal and was deeply involved in a wide range of environmental publishing initiatives.

Sommaire

Foreword by Christie, Hartel and Porter
Preface by Rom La Dell
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Preliminaries to Plant Use and the Landscape
Managing Plant Growth on Landscape Sites
Establishing and Management of Trees
Establishment and Management of Smaller Woody Plants
Establishment and Management of Herbaceous Plants
Index
Plant index
The color plate section can be found opposite

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Blackwell
Auteur(s)	James Hitchmough, Ken Fieldhouse
Parution	01/11/2003
Nb. de pages	388
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	978g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780632058433
ISBN13	978-0-632-05843-3