Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez
Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez
Designing for Florida-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Erin Alvarez
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<strong>Designing</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Florida</strong>-<strong>Friendly</strong><strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Maintenance</strong><strong>Erin</strong> <strong>Alvarez</strong>Center <strong>for</strong> <strong>Landscape</strong> Conservation and EcologyEnvironmental Horticulture Department
Overview• The unbreakable bond: Design and <strong>Maintenance</strong>• Plant Selection: Right Plant, Right Place• Lawns and Bedlines: Keep it together• Examples• You’re on your own!
<strong>Designing</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Maintenance</strong>• Relationship between design and maintenance• Property values• <strong>Landscape</strong>s change
<strong>Maintenance</strong> and Design?• Interrelated aspects of landscapemanagement• Similar principles• Good design opens the door togood maintenance practices• One or the other…or both
Property Values• Designed landscape increased value up to 42%– Sophisticated vs. Minimal– Plant selection– Plant size
<strong>Maintenance</strong> and Design• Good design can solve or prevent problems• <strong>Maintenance</strong> has the last word
Relative <strong>Maintenance</strong> RequirementsTurfSpecialCarePlantsBeddingPlantsGroundcoverShrubsTrees
<strong>Landscape</strong> Components• Right Plant, Right Place!– Mature height AND width– Cultural needs• Soil• Light• Temperature
<strong>Landscape</strong> Components• Right Plant, Right Place– Not just cultural needs– Consider habit– Consider <strong>for</strong>m
<strong>Landscape</strong> Components• High-input plants in high-impact areas
Lawns and Bedlines• Right plant, right place!• Proportion• Who’s doing the work?• Turf is not a default option
Surfaces <strong>Maintenance</strong> RequirementsTurfBaresoilGravelStoneset insandAsphaltMortaredstoneConcrete
“Impossible” Areas
• BedlinesLawns and Beds– Watch intersections– Keep angles right or obtuse– Don’t leave your turf lonely
Lawns and Bedlines• Bedlines– Edging– Mission impossible?
Lawns and Bedlines
Lawns and Bedlines
Lawns and Bedlines• Minimize unnecessary maintenance– Upkeep– Edging– MowingTwo lines to edge!
Case Studies!• Let’s look at a few examples…
Case Studies!• Now get outside and find your own!…
Thank you!• Questions?– Contact <strong>Erin</strong> <strong>Alvarez</strong> at erinalvarez@ufl.edu
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