Test 1 Flashcards
Define landscape management
Art, science, and skill employed by professionals who maintain all or any part of the exterior environment.
Responsible for:
Plants ,animals, and inanimate Objects.
Manages: (4)
People, Time , Equipment, and money.
What year did Landscape Management Begin
1960 along with fertilizer and chemical companies.
How many acres of managed turf areas are in the U.S.
50 million
Average size of home lawns in the U.S.
0.32 acres or 1,400 sq.ft.
Good lawn and landscape management adds: (2)
Pride, Property Value
What is the Largest Franchise in the Country
True Green (1969), 200 branches, 1.4 billion
other large franchise companys
valleycrest co. , the Brickman Group, Davey Tree Expert Co,
Small sized markets have:
opportunities in Niche markets, room for growth, (quality work/ fair prices.)
How many golf courses are in the U.S.
19,000
Companies Diversify in what areas:
mowing, woody plant care, annual color, Irrigation, Lawn Establishment and/or renovation. aquascapes.
What act re-evaluated over 9000 pesticides?
Food Quality Protection Act
Risk cup test exposure over how many years?
70 years
California Air and Resource Board did what?
Banned 2-cycle models,
What is the major expense for most Landscape firms.
Labor
H2B does what?
allows foreigners to work seasonally under temporary visas.
Good indicators of the Landscape industry are:
housing market and personal income
Landscape freshwater usage:
Golf course:
- 9%
1. 5%
$ of irrigation sold annually ?
800 million
Xeriscapes
Designing to take full advantage of rainfall.
Landscape managers must be:
Good horticulturists/ Good business people
Profit =
Sustainability
how many landscape management companies are in the U.S.
50,000 to 145,000
Small companies produce less than
200,000 annually, Residential markets(bread&butter)
Top 50 Firms hold only ___% of the market
15%
Profession Orginizations
Sports Turfmanagers Association(STMA)
Golf Course Superintendent Association (GCSAA)
Professional Landcare Network(Planet)
Landcarenetwork.org, GCSAA.org, STMA.org
1 acre =
1 gal=
- 560ft^2
3. 785L
Groups of Cells with common origins, structures and functions?
Tissues
Monocot
3’s, parallel, vascular bundle scattered.
Dicot
4, 5, 2 cotyledons, netlike venation, vascualar bundle circular
true leaf is made of: (3)
Blade, Petiole and axillary Bud
axis where pinnately compound leaves attach
Rachis
Thorns:
Spines:
Prickles:
aborted shoots,
aborted leaves
modified epidermal cells.
Stem Functions(4)
support, storage, xylem &phloem, photosynthesis
Root Function(4)
Anchorage, water/nutrient uptake, storage, Nitrogen Assimilation.
group of flowers
group of flowers
Flowers are sessile
Spike
flowers with pedicels (unbranched)
raceme
compound raceme
panicle
flat top youngest flowers at end of rachis
corymb
flat top, pedicles originate from common point.
umbel
flat toped, oldest flowers at end of rachis
Cyme
many single, sessile flowers
Head