Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective SpecifyingISBN: 978-0-632-05843-3
Paperback
382 pages
December 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.