Landscape Design I

Landscape Design I

1101 S. New Ave.

Springfield, MO 65807 40 points Due: 3:00 pm, April 2, 2008

Directions and Description: This is an older single-family, one-story house with basement and detached 2-car garage about 1.5 miles west of MSU campus off Grand Avenue. From campus, head west on Grand, through Campbell and Grant, and take the next available left turn (turn left on Broadway). Go south on Broadway until it ends at Catalpa St. Turn right (west) on Catalpa and go until it ends at New Ave. Turn right (north) on New and go about one block. The house is on the left (west) side of the street and has yellow siding and a covered front porch that runs across the entire front.

The owners have purchased it to fix up and re-sell and are looking for some landscape design ideas. Low maintenance and low cost landscaping that is attractive and would enhance curb appeal as well as back yard aesthetics is desired. Plantings for around the front and north side foundation, and plants for the planter beds in front of the porch are important. However, since it is possible that the house will sell soon, if you wished to include more elaborate landscape features that could be given to the new owners as possible improvements, you may do so—this might include adding a deck, back yard screening fences or plants, or anything else you might think would work. All plants should be hardy to Zone 6.

You might want to show a paved driveway and where you would locate it on the property. You can choose to keep or remove the concrete pad, but it is probably useful to try to work it into your design. You can choose to remove the clothesline & poles, if desired.

The power lines are above ground and run along New Avenue, and the line to the house is indicated on the drawing. The small dimension lines shown inside the property are the locations of basement windows along the exterior walls. The heights shown outside the exterior windows indicate window height above the ground.

Drawing Tips:

Re-draw this design in 1” =10’ or 1” =8’ on plain (not graph) paper that is at least 18” x 24” size (if you use the 1” = 8’ scale, you might want larger
Draw the existing trees at mature size
Be sure to indicate scale used, north direction on your drawing
You should have room to include your plant key on the drawing—if your scale does not allow including the key, (verify with instructor first), then you may make your key on plain white paper, handwritten or word-processed in the plant-key box table form.
Use appropriate building foundation symbols for the house & garage features
Select plants that will not interfere with street or property overhead power lines
You do not need to include the text descriptions of the window heights, front porch, patio, raised beds, clothesline/poles, gravel drive on your drawing, and you don’t need to show the basement window locations.