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Brown Bauhaus Landscape Flashcards

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A general term referring to the identification implementation of strategies that optimize landscape potential

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Landscape planning

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The natural function of landscapes to replenish and recreate their elements, interrelationships, health, and productivity

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Landscape regeneration

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The ability of a landscape (or a planning or design decision) to sustain the carrying capacity of the system of which it is a part, without additional intervention and without resource depletion or system degradation

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Sustainability

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Point-in-time expression of ecological, technology, and cultural processes

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Landscape

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An oasis-like ribbon of green vegetation, often canopied, that only exists near rivers, streams, or other watercourses

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Bosque

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The historically oriental art of dwarfing trees by careful root and stem pruning coupled with root restriction. The term is from the Japanese for “potted plant”, because such trees are often kept in containers.

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Bonsai

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Having foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year or through more than one growing season

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Evergreen

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Any of various predominantly evergreen, cone-bearing trees, as pine, fir, hemlock, and spruce

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Coniferous

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A small roofed outbuilding erected for outdoor dining and entertaining, often octagonal, with open, screened, or latticework

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Gazebo

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The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants

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Horticulture

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To combine, blend, or unite gradually by stages so as to blur identity or distinctions

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Merge

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A whimsical or extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view or commemorate a person or event

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Folly

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A small, often ornamental building in a garden

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Pavilion

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A plant that lives for an indefinite period of time

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Perennial

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Refers to a plant that originated in another region and is not native to the area in which it is currently located. Most often used in connection with tropical plants grown indoors or in greenhouses

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Exotic

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The rhythm of day and night (light and darkness) greatly affects landscape perception and design

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Diurnal rhythm

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A general term that refers to modifications to an existing landform to achieve drainage, cause water to flow away from buildings and site-use areas, create visual effects, and other reasons

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Grading

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A mental construct that emerges from characteristics of a setting, their interrelationships, and the associations they evoke. Places with a strong sense said to have high placeness, are usually able to be recalled over long periods of time.

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Sense of place

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Identifying the design opportunities and constraints specific to a given site

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Site analysis

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Communities that sustain themselves within depleting environmental or human resources, and without degrading environmental or human systems. These communities sustain the person-environment system, provide residents with a sense of belonging to viable living communities, and play a major role in the health of the physical, ecological, and human environment.

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Sustainable communities

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An ornamental arrangement of flowerbeds of different shapes and sizes

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Parterre

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A plant native to the locale in question and is sometimes allowed to co-exist with lawn grass, ground covers, or garden plants

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Indigenous plant

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A concept developed by bio-geographers, of a global system of patterns of flora, fauna, and ecological performance boundaries

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Biome

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The condition where landform, trees, or other conditions shield an area from the wind

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Windshadow

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The climate as affected by landform

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Topoclimate

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A covering placed around plants or covering the ground in lieu of plants, to prevent the growth of weeds

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Mulch

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The three-dimensional relief of the surface of the earth

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Landform

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The set of environmental conditions within which plants and animals live. The type of place where an organism has.

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Habitat

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A general term referring to the identification and implementation of strategies that optimize landscape potential

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Landscape management

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Landforms generated by, and expressive of, forces external to the mass. Include landforms generated by erosion (wind, rain, and ice flows) and weathering (physical and chemical decay)

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Negative landform

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Horizontal layers (canopy tree, understory tree, shrub, ground cover) that constitute a plant community

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Plant strata

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A pattern of resource use that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

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Sustainable development

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Landscapes systematically bound through culturally significant, nonverbal communication with a high degree of associational meaning to native people. These are records of people, who they are, and who they aspire to be.

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Cultural landscape

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The first planned park of the United States

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Central Park, NY

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Providing plants prematurely and artificially with the warmer temperatures they require to grow, forcing them to bloom earlier in the season than would normally happen

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Vernalization

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A plant characteristic that refers to the visual grain or coarseness of a perceived surface. It is influenced by leaf size and edge character, twig and branch size, bark articulation, growth habit, and viewing distance.

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Texture

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In landscaping and gardening, a boundary to a garden designed not to interrupt a view from e.g. a country house. It consists of a ditch with side or revetment nearest the viewpoint perpendicular (or slightly battered), faced with brick or stone, and the other side sloped and turfed.

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Ha-ha

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Style lying between the formal and informal, defined by batty Langley in his Practical Geometry (1726) and new Principles of Gardening (1728) as “regular irregularity”: in landscaped gardens, this signified as symmetrical geometry overlaid by asymmetrical elements such as serpentine paths

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Artinatural

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Landscaping designed specifically for areas that are susceptible to drought

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Xeriscaping

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A line of closely spaced shrubs and tree species planted and trained in such as way as to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area

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Hedge

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Pertaining to an organism that needs atmospheric oxygen to thrive, used especially in reference to compost piles. Effective compost bins promote an environment in which such organisms thrive.

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Aerobic

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An open framework designed to offer a shady resting place in a garden or park, often made of rustic work or latticework which serves as a support on which climbers may grow or on which creepers may be trained

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Arbor

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The art, science, technology, and business of tree care

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Arboriculture

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A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree often used decoratively as a veneer in woodcraft

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Burl

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Applied to the soil which, deprived of proper aeration, and suffers from excessive water runoff and poor conditions for plant rooting

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Compaction

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The gardening practice of planting one plant in proximity to another, due to the benefits it bestows on the other plant

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Companion planting

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A mixture of decaying organic matter, as from leaves and manure, used as an amendment to improve soil structure and provide nutrients

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Compost

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The process of mechanically removing plugs of soil and thatch from a lawn to reduce soil compaction

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Core aeration

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A crop that is primarily planted not to be harvested for food but to prevent erosion, control weeds, and improve soil quality while the garden is otherwise dormant

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Cover crop

50
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A vine plant that needs to be artificially guided and secured to support (trained), if it is to grow upright

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Creeper

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