Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leader:

lect.dr.urb. Sorina Rusu

Learning outcomes:

The course aims to familiarize students with plants species and their environmental necessities together with the possibilities for using them in landscape architecture.

Content:

1. Groups of woody plants - trees, shrubs, undergrowth, creepers.
2. Morphology - root, stem, crown, foliage, flowers, fruits.
3. Ornamental plant biology.
4. Plant relationships with environmental factors.
5. Plant relationships with edaphic factors.
6. Conifer trees.
7. Deciduous trees.
8. Ornamental trees by: foliage, habitus, flowers.
9. Conifer and deciduous shrubs.
10. Undergrowth plants, climbing shrubs and ornamental vines.
11. Floriculture. Lawn in green spaces.
12. Diseases and pests of the plants.
13. Permaculture.
14. Natural form and biophilic design.

Teaching Method:

Courses and screenings, direct observation in the field.

Assessment:

Verification paper during the semester

Bibliography:

- Chifu Toader - Dictionar etimologic de botanica sistematica, Ed. Știința, 2006
- Iliescu Ana Felicia, Arhitectură peisageră. Editura Ceres, București, 2003
- Milea Preda - Dictionar Dendrofloricol Ed.Stiintifica,1989
- Elena Selaru - Plante de apartament, Ed.Ceres, 1998
- Elena Selaru - Flori pentru casa noastra, Ed Ceres, 2000
- Elena Selaru - Flori cultivate in gradina, Ed.M.A.S.T., 2001
- Dumitru Tataranu - Arbori si arbusti forestieri si ornamentali cultivati in R.S.R., Ed.Agrosilvica,
Bucuresti, 1960
- Peter Himmelhuber, Gradina vesnic verde, Editura Casa, 2010
- Timothy Beatley, Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design, Island Press, 2017
- Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture, Chelsea Green Publishing 2013
- Powo. "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ Retrieved 29
November 2024."