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Feb 05, 2025
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AGH 120 - Herbaceous Plant Materials
Last Date of Approval: Summer 2020
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 00
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course will acquaint students with plant characteristics, culture and maintenance of hardy and tender perennials, groundcovers, annuals, and ornamental grasses, grown in Iowa and the upper Midwest.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
- The student will identify a variety of herbaceous ornamental plants.
- The student will compare common maintenance techniques used on herbaceous plants.
- The student will differentiate the characteristics of each plant, such as light, amount of water needed, fertilizer, flowering period, and pruning.
Course Objectives:
- The scientific name for the ornamentals.
- The common name for the plant.
- How much light the plant requires.
- Which zones are best suited for the plant to thrive in.
- How much water does the plant need.
- The pruning required for each particular plant.
- When and if fertilizer should be used.
- The best area for planting.
- How to put similar plants together.
- The correct spacing for the plants.
- Where the taller growing plants should be located in a planting.
- What maintenance will be required on a planting site.
- What are the advantages of planting annuals in your landscape.
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