PHG215 Landscape Plants - Establishment, Maintenance and Protection

Knowledge

The student must have knowledge of:

• how landscape plants grow and biological prerequisites for establishment, care and protection
• the most important environmental factors that control the growth cycle in northern areas, as well as the most common winter, biotic and abiotic damage to lignoses.
• Plant quality and size sorting for trees, shrubs and perennials
• environmentally and climate-friendly establishment and management,
• which tasks are included in management, different methods for the most common types of management, as well as management plans.
• Regulations on alien plant species, the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre's list of alien species and risk of spread

Skills

The student should be able to:

• make professional choices for descriptions for soil, plants and maintenance description
• Ensure quality in descriptions and perform control of plants
• assess growth and development and perform quality control of establishment, management and protection measures
• Environmental risk assessment of plants for green areas

General competence

The student should be able to

• participate in professional discussions on issues related to environmentally and climate-friendly establishment and maintenance of green areas
• assess the most important prerequisites for achieving successful establishment, management and protection of vegetation
• assess which plant qualities and sizes are most appropriate in different types of green spaces
• assess whether plans and descriptions include sufficient measures to establish, maintain and protect vegetation so that the result in the short and long term is developed in accordance with the intention for the project