Landscape Assignment: Submitted By: Arshi Khan 160823025

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ARSHI KHAN
160823025
USES
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
• Bowling alleys and bowling pins .
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple
• Popular wood for baseball bats.
or rock maple
• Manufacture of musical
instruments.
ABOUT:
• Inner bark as a cough remedy.
• species of maple native to the hardwood
forests of eastern Canada
ECOLOGY:
• Acer saccharum is a deciduous tree
• Sugar maple is native to areas
normally reaching heights of 25–35 m
with cooler climates.
(80–115 ft),and exceptionally up to 45 m (148 ft).
• Among the most shade tolerant .
LEAVES AND FRUITS:
• The sugar maple can grow comfortably in any
• The leaves are deciduous, up to 20 cm (7.9 in)
type of soil except sand.
long and equally wide, with five palmate lobes
• Sugar maples engage in hydraulic lift.
• The fall color is often spectacular, ranging from
• Displaced by the Norway maple.
bright yellow on some trees through orange to
fluorescent red-orange on others.
• The flowers are in panicles of five to 10
together,
yellow-green and without petals; flowering occurs
in early spring after 30–55 growing degree days.
• The sugar maple will generally begin flowering
when it is between 10 and 15 years old.
• The fruit is a pair of samaras (winged seeds).
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: ABOUT:
• Kalmia latifolia • Its unusual method of dispensing its pollen.
• Calico-bush • originally brought to Europe as an ornamental
• Spoonwood plant
• Wood is heavy and strong but brittle, with a
LOCATION: close, straight grain.
• mountain and hill slopes • It is used as an analgesic.
• Eastern United States • Used as a decoction of the leaves for diarrhea.
GROWTH: FLOWERS AND FRUITS:

• It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3–9 m tall. • Showy, medium sized
• There are several named cultivars today that have • White to purple
darker shades of pink, near red and maroon pigment. • clustered with pollen-bearing stamens tucked
• It blooms in May and June. All parts of the plant are into pockets in the fused petal
poisonous. Roots are fibrous and matted. • fruit is present as rounded dry capsules
LEAVES:
• pointed or blunt
• light green beneath
• Hairless
• edges not rolled
• often crowded near the twig ends
• The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm wide
ECOLOGY:
• Found on rocky slopes and mountainous forest areas.
• It thrives in acidic soil .
• The plant often grows in large thickets.
• Component of oak-heath forests.
• In low, wet areas, it grows densely, but in dry
uplands has a more sparse form
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
Allium schoenoprasum
• Are an edible species of the genus Allium.

CULTIVATION:
• Their close relatives include the garlic, shallot, leek, scallion.
• Chives are cultivated both for their culinary
• A perennial plant. uses and their ornamental value.
• Can be found in grocery stores or grown in home gardens. • The violet flowers are often used in ornamental
dry bouquets.
• Chives thrive in well-drained soil, rich in organic
DESCRIPTION: matter, with a pH of 6-7 and full sun.
• Chives are a bulb-forming herbaceous perennial plant. • Chives starting to look old can be cut back to
• Height growing to 30–50 cm . about 2–5 cm.
• The bulbs are slender, conical, 2–3 cm long and 1 cm broad, and
grow in dense clusters from the roots. USES:
• It is widespread in nature across much of Europe, Asia, and North • Chives have a wide variety of culinary uses.
America. • The flowers may also be used to garnish dishes.
• The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators. • Used in plant cultivation.
• They also have mild stimulant, diuretic, and
• Chives are repulsive to insects in general, due to their sulfur
antiseptic properties.
compounds, their flowers attract bees, and they are at times
kept to increase desired insect life.
FLAME VINE
NAMES: Regional:
• Pyrostegia. This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
• Orange trumpet vine Tempe, Arizona
• Golden shower climber Encinitas, California
Santa Barbara, California
DESCRIPTION: Vista, California
• Golden shower climber because of its appearance with
clusters of orange colored flowers. Seed Collecting:
• This fast-growing climbing plant blooms mainly during N/A: plant does not set seed, flowers are sterile, or plants will not
spring and winter come true from seed.
• Gives it a fiery look.
• Requires regular watering. Soil pH requirements:
• Good exposure towards the sun to facilitate its growth. 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
• Each cluster bears 15 to 20 tubular, 3-inch flowers. 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
• Pollinated flowers give way to 30-centimeter, slender, 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
dry capsules that hold winged seeds.
Best suited for:

Balconies and fences alike
Specialty:
Cluster of Orange flowers in large quantities so that your
vine stays ever-blooming.
Benefits:
Ornamental and blooms in winter and spring.
CULTIVATION:
The flame vine will grow to cover fences and trellises—as
well as trees and small buildings. With full sun or part-
shade and regular watering, it is hardy to about 25
degrees Fahrenheit (-4 degrees Celsius).
LAMB’S EARS CARE FOR LAMB'S EARS:
• Avoid watering the plants overhead, as the leaves will rot if
SCIENTIFIC NAME: they get too wet.
Stachys byzantine • Avoid crowding to promote sufficient air circulation.
• Keeping them off the damp ground.
ABOUT:
• Lamb's-ear plants are perennial herbs usually densely covered with gray USES IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN:
or silver-white, silky-lanate hairs • The plants are widely used in flower borders.
• Flowering stems are erect, often branched, and tend to be 4-angled, • As drought-tolerant perennials, they are candidates for rock
growing 40–80 cm tall. gardens.
• The leaves are arranged oppositely on the stems and 5 to 10 cm long. • Their silvery color is fun to play with when experimenting with
• The leaf margins are crenulate but covered with dense hairs color theory in your landscape design.
• The flowering spikes are 10–22 cm long, producing verticillasters.
• The leaf bracteoles are linear to linear-lanceolate in shape and 6 mm
long.
• 'Big Ears' - leaves very large, up to 25 cm long.
• 'Primrose Heron' - leaves yellow in spring; flowers pink

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