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HORT30050

Academic Year 2025/2026

Landscape Plants (HORT30050)

Subject:
Horticulture
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Agriculture & Food Science
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Noeleen Smyth
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

An introduction to the identification of a general range of trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbous plants used in public and private residential landscape schemes in urban and rural areas. Learn how to identify these plants, how and where they can be used in planting design. It is also provides Landscape Architecture students with plant knowledge necessary for their planting design projects in particular and landscape design work in general. The course will also incorporate latest policies for nature restoration planting, urban greening, and planting of native species planting, supporting biodiversity and pollinators and nature friendly planting.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Be able to select plants species for a range of situations encountered from natural to built landscapes. Assess the suitability of existing and proposed vegetation for a range of situations. Be able to select plant material for various situations from nursery catalogues. Apply information gained from this module when developing planting plans and landscape management plans.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

20
Laboratories

20
Specified Learning Activities

20
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
In class lectures

Practical plant identification classes

Campus classroom - identification of the range of plants and trees found on campus

Site visits to view, select and access the range of landscape plants currently used for urban sites

Visit to the National Botanic Gardens to view annual and herbaceous planting schemes

Selecting species from Nursery catalogues

Journal portfolio for species recording

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Fundamentals of Horticulture or a similar course


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): Two in Class Plant Identification Exams Week 6, Week 11 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
25
 No
Exam (In-person): Written end of term examination End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Standard conversion grade scale 40% Yes
50
 Yes
Portfolio: Plant Identification Journal from lab sessions Week 5, Week 10 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
20
 No
Report(s): Site visit reports Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
5
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback is available on the first plant identification examination Feedback on the second plant identification examination and on the end of semester examination will offered to students in the following semester.

Name Role
Dr Noeleen Smyth Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Laboratory Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 11:00 - 12:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Tues 11:00 - 12:50
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