Landscaping provides economic, health, environmental, and social benefits. Economically, landscaping can increase property values by 14% and reduce heating/cooling costs by 20%. Health benefits include reducing stress and providing exercise by gardening. Environmentally, landscaping reduces flooding, erosion, and pollution while improving air and water quality. Socially, landscaping creates attractive, livable communities and spaces for entertainment. Employment opportunities in landscaping are wide-ranging from gardeners and landscapers to consultants, designers, and government roles in planning and conservation.

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2. Importance of landscaping
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Dr. Thaneshwari

3. Economic Health
Environmental Social

4. 1. Economic reasons for landscaping are:
Increases the value of your home
Makes your home more attractive to prospective
purchasers
Reduces the time your property is on the market
Reduces heating and cooling costs

6. Economic Benefits
• Landscaping can add as much as 14% to the
resale value of a building and speed its sale by
as much as 6 weeks
• Properly selected and placed plants can lower
home heating and cooling costs by as much as
20%.
(Source: “Economic Benefits of Landscape”,
Associated Landscape Contractors of
America).

7. Health reasons for landscaping are:
Creates a healthier home by filtering pollutants
and providing cleaner air
Keeps the family fit by fostering an active
lifestyle
Creates a beautiful environment to decrease
your stress levels
Provides privacy

9. Health and Psycho-social Benefits
• You can burn as many calories in 45 minutes of gardening
as in 30 minutes of aerobics. One hour of weeding burns
300 calories (the same as walking or bicycling at a
moderate pace), and manual push mowing of the lawn
burns 500 calories per hour (the same rate as playing
tennis).
• A recent study at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York
found that women recover from cancer surgery quicker if
they spend time in a garden
• Workers with a view of natural elements, such as trees and
flowers, experienced less job pressure, were more satisfied
with their jobs and reported fewer ailments and headaches
than those who either had no outside view or could only
see built elements from their windows.

10. View of plants experience less job pressure
Non-landscaped areas were graffiti targets

11. Gardens produce
healthy food likes
edible garden
Gardening is excellent
physical exercise

12. Gardens offer an environment for people who
are sick, and under stress to recover and
regain confidence in themselves.

13. Photographs of the two hospital room treatments. (A) No plants and (B) foliage and
flowering plants. Room B contained single plants of arrowhead vine, cretan brake fern,
variegated vinca and yellow star jasmine arranged with two plants each of
dendrobium, peace lily, golden pothos and kentia palm.
Park and Mattson (2009)
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14. Environmental reasons for landscaping are:
Reduction of storm water runoff reducing local
flooding
Control temperature extremes, stay cooler in
summer and warmer in winter
Erosion control reducing loss of soils in waterways
Reduction soil degradation
Reduction in noise and air pollution

15. Reduce the “urban heat island effect”
Reduce amount of greenhouse gas
Reduce energy consumption
Reduce water pollution
recharging groundwater supplies
Increase the beauty of cities

16. Environmental Benefits
• Trees, shrubs, turf, and groundcovers trap and filter
dust and other pollutants out of rainwater. Plants
benefit from the nutrients in this particulate matter
and prevent it from becoming a source of water
pollution.
• Landscaping with woody plants along streambanks and
shorelines can reduce soil erosion, filter pollutants, and
reduce downstream flooding.
• Rainfall retention. A healthy, sodded lawn absorbs
rainfall 6 times more effectively than a wheat field

17. Plants improve air quality. “One tree can remove 26 pounds of
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, equaling 11,000
miles of car emissions.
One study showed that 1 acre of trees has the ability to remove
13 tons of particles and gases annually.
An average tree releases enough oxygen each day to supply a
family of four.
In urban microclimates plants are useful in moderating the
temperature effects of solar and infrared radiation, thus
increasing comfort levels.

18. “Properly selected and placed plantings absorb sound waves,
and can significantly reduce unwanted ‘noise pollution’.
Additionally, in the presence of breeze, some plants make
pleasant sounds of their own.

19. Soil erosion
Protect water quality

20. Utilizing a vertical garden to reduce indoor
carbon dioxide in an indoor environment
Yarn et al., 2013
Wulfenia Jouranl
Case Study

21. NASA has proven that plants help to remove organic
volatile compounds from indoor air. "Low levels of
chemicals such as carbon monoxide and formaldehyde
can be removed from indoor environments by plant
leaves alone, while higher concentrations of numerous
toxic chemicals can be removed by filtering indoor air
through the plant roots surrounded by activated carbon.
The carbon absorbs large quantities of toxic chemicals
and retains them until the plant roots and associated
microorganisms degrade and assimilate these
chemicals."

22. Social reasons for landscaping are:
Creates green buffer zones to increase the livability
of our communities
Attractive environment for entertaining and
relaxing

23. Rehabilitation Garden at the
Shepherd Centre in Atlanta,
USA
Garden at Mount Zion
Cancer Clinic San
Francisco, USA.
Garden at Rusk Institute of
Rehabilitative Medicine in New
York, USA
Garden of the Oregon Burn
Centre, Washington

24. Scope of landscaping and gardening
• With the importance and need of gardening in improving
and conserving the environment being strongly felt now,
the concept of landscaping and gardening is growing
rapidly.
Ornamental gardening and landscaping has expanded as a
multi-faceted industry encompassing activities such as
 propagating and rearing ornamental plants,
 landscaping,
 production of growing media,
 pots and other accessories

25. Arborists
Lawn care technicians
irrigation specialists
horticultural consultants - provide advice,
guidance and support to commercial
companies and public sector organisations.

26. Government Sector Employment
• The nationalized banks, reserve bank, state bank put forward an opportunity for
post graduates in agriculture and horticulture as agricultural officers, probationary
officers, field officers and rural development officers.
• Different agricultural universities also employ horticultural postgraduates for
distinct posts from concerned field of their specialization. However, for a number
of posts for the post of associate professor, assistant professor and other teaching
posts but candidates should qualify national eligibility test (NET) conducted by
UGC/CSIR/ICAR while for senior level posts doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in concerned
Scientist:
• This examination conducted by the agriculture scientist recruitment board (ASRB),
ICAR, New Delhi.
• Horticulture officer and Assistant horticulture officer: this examinations conducted
by public service commission of concerned state.
• Technical assistant, horticulture inspector / food inspector / marketing inspector:
the eligibility of this examination is B.Sc. (Agriculture) or B.Sc. (Horticulture) and
examination conducted by concerned state government

27. Private Sector Employment
• horticulturist in industries, hotels, golf courses
& construction companies.
• Marketing jobs are also offered by various
seed, weedicides, pesticide and insecticide
companies
• hands-on gardener
• plant scientist
• a garden designer

28.  Research
 Chemical industry
 Production of essential oils
 Machinery
 Distribution
 Computer in horticulture: landscape designing, crop
modelling and soil modelling public information,
record keeping and databases. Expert systems,
communication, sensor technology and internet
services etc. computer technology have significant
applications in horticulture.

29. Self-Employment and
Entrepreneurship Development
• Own agriculture clinic
• Business of nursery raising of fruit plants, ornamental
plants, aromatic and medicinal plants and bonsai by
the plant material using various techniques such as
sexual propagation (seed) and asexual propagation
• entrepreneurship development in nursery
management, landscaping, processing, marketing and
protected cultivation of higher value horticultural
crops.
• A horticultural graduate can start their own retailing
business of fruits, vegetables and flowers using mobile
based agri retailing (MBAR) model

30. DIFFERENT JOB POSITIONS IN
HORTICULTURAL SECTOR
Floriculturist
Botanical / Horticultural Garden Worker
Horticultural Consultant
Horticultural Therapist: These people can be
employed by hospitals, nursing homes,
prisons, schools, and rehabilitation centres.
Greenhouse Manager:

31. Landscape Architect: They plans and designs
exterior landscapes for parks, recreational areas,
campuses, industrial sites, institutional grounds,
shopping malls, and other large projects. These
people may be self-employed or work for
developmental companies, government agencies,
landscape architectural firms, or resorts.
Nursery Manager
Horticultural Marketer

32. would include :
 urban planning
 site planning
 environment planning
 real estate planning
 green infrastructure planning
 Landscape architects work both as lead professionals and as
specialist site designers on a wide range of projects, including civic
developments, urban design, commercial, industrial and tourism
developments, and residential and lifestyle subdivisions.
Scope of Landscape Architecture