Landscaping and Ornamental Gardening

ELEC 04 is the elective course that studies how landscapes and ornamental spaces are planned, planted, and maintained for beauty, utility, comfort, and environmental value. It helps students understand landscape design as a practical horticultural and service-oriented field, not only as decoration.

Landscaping is the broader planning and design of outdoor or semi-outdoor spaces, while ornamental gardening focuses more specifically on the cultivation and use of decorative plants. In this course, students study both together because plant choice and spatial design are closely linked.

Formal gardens usually follow symmetry, geometry, and planned structure, while informal gardens follow a more natural, freer, and less rigid style. Students study this distinction because garden layout style affects plant placement, maintenance, and visual impact.

Lawn establishment is important because lawns often serve as the base visual surface in designed landscapes and influence the overall appearance and usability of the site. In ELEC 04, students study lawn making and maintenance as essential practical components of landscape work.

Yes. ELEC 04 includes indoor and terrace gardening because ornamental and functional plant use is not limited to open ground spaces. These topics are important for modern urban homes, institutions, and small-space horticulture.

These are specialized landscape styles that use different design themes, plant choices, and structural elements to create particular visual and environmental effects. Students study them to understand how landscaping varies according to concept, space, and intended atmosphere.

It is important because landscape planning in public and institutional spaces affects aesthetics, usability, comfort, and environmental quality for many people. ELEC 04 helps students understand landscaping as both a horticultural practice and a public-service design field.

Prepare ELEC 04 by learning landscape styles, ornamental plant categories, lawn practices, and site-use concepts together instead of memorizing isolated names. Students usually do better when they connect each design type or plant group with a real landscape purpose and maintenance need.