Course: Lawn and ornamental garden management

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Course title Lawn and ornamental garden management
Course code KROV/TOZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kobes Milan, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Course Description per Week: 1-2) Current characteristics, importance and applying of different types of greens, their categories and special using. 3) Evaluation and improving of water regime in greens and its improvement. 4) Evaluation of soil cementation and mechanical resistance of turf. 5) Grass mixtures composition 6) Sward establisment methods, sowing, grass carpets laying. 7) Green fertilisation. Technics of green unkeeping. 8-9) Projecting of greenery areas. Decorative timber species, soliter and group and line utplanting. 10) Formation of decorative timber plants. 11) The most important rockery plant species and bed plant species. 12-13) The flowerage time of most important bed plants. Beds establishment and management. 14) Repetition of subject. Inclusion.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
  • Preparation for credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 50 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 30 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Aims: This module includes rewiew of theoretical basis of biology, ecology and dynamics of greens and practise processes of its establishment and unkeeping and projects of common and decorative greenery. Students will learn the exploitation of greenery, their special types and their applying, their management, fertilisation and species composition. Students will take knowledge of planting and upkeep of decorative woody plants, perennial and annual flowers.
Students are able to orientate in the sowing of greens, its preservation, fertilization, cutting, mulching and utilisation. Students will take theoretical knowledge for determination of green plants and its seeds. Students will take knowledge of planting and upkeep of decorative woody plants, perennial and annual flowers.
Prerequisites
Standard knowledge of biology, botany, pedology and plant protection.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Combined exam

Active participation in exercises, understanding the curriculum defined for the exam.
Recommended literature
  • Bureš,F., Hrabě,F. Trávníkářské praktikum. Brno, MZLU, 1996.
  • Champan,G.P. The Biology of Grasses. Wallingford,CAB International, 1996.
  • Koblížek,J. Jehličnaté a listnaté dřeviny našich zahrad a parků. Tišnov, 2000.
  • Míka,V. Morfogeneze trav. Praha, VÚRV, 2002.
  • Svobodová,M. Trávníky. Praha,AF ČZU, 1998.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture and Technology Study plan (Version): Land Adjustment and Real Estate Trade (2010) Category: Agriculture and forestry 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter