FNBE 0814 Constructed Landscape Project 3 - Lecture

1. Maintenance Plan for Designed Landscape

2. Definition
Objectives
Maintenance Operation for plants
Water Requirement
Maintenance schedule
Maintenance Plan

3. What is Landscape Maintenance Plan?
The tasks that is needed to be done in order to maintain and sustain a particular Landscape .
Maintenance is the routine work which is necessary to protect the planted plants or a particular Landscaping.
When carried out on a planned basis, maintenance helps to
prevent the types of failure which occur predictably within the life of a plant.

4. Why do we need a Maintenance Plan?
Regular maintenance is the best way to ensure the continued preservation and future use of a designed landscape. Such work is part of the day-to-day responsibility of all owners and occupiers.
Maintenance is most effective when
carried out regularly, on a planned cycle
Good maintenance needs the regular investment of small amounts of time
and money, but the cost of preparing and carrying out a planned maintenance programme should be far less than the costs resulting from a series of unplanned major repairs, and will help you plan your future financial commitments and fundraising needs
Healthy growth of all plants and aesthetic aspects

5. Maintenance Operation for plants
The following are the required maintenance operations necessary for the care and upkeep of landscape works
Watering
Weeding
Pest and disease control
Pruning and repair
Fertilizing
Turf trimming

6. Watering
Water supply to a particular plant

7. Weeding
remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground)

8. Pest and disease control
management of a species defined as a pest

9. Pruning and Repair
trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to encourage growth

10. Fertilizing
make (soil or land) more fertile or productive by adding suitable substances to it.

11. Turf Trimming
Cutting of overgrown grass

12. Maintenance Operation for plants

13. Maintenance Operation for plants
(CON’T)

14. Water Requirements

15. Maintenance schedule

16. Maintenance schedule

17. Maintenance schedule
(CON’T)

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