One (1) credit

meetings: none, completely online with email contact with the professor as needed

Objectives:

This course combines lecture notes and specific details on about 200 herbaceous garden plants. The 32 lectures are grouped into modules on botany, design, culture, and pests and problems as they relate to flower and foliage garden plants. These include annuals, perennials, and other groups such as aquatic plants, ornamental grasses, roses, even tender tropical "perennials". Quizzes, plant identification quizzes, and seven exercises to help reinforce and provide additional information, are taken on-line (NOT WebCT based). They are open book, designed to test and reinforce your familiarity with the extensive content, and to reinforce key plants, plant features and topics. More details, and samples of the course, can be found at: http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/hgpo/hgpo.htm

Assignments

(1600 maximum points for course, grades determined on standard 10 point percent scale, ie 90-100%=A, 80-89%=B, etc.)
content quizzes (7) 700 points
ID quizzes (4) 400 points
Final 300 points
Final ID 200 points