Senior High School Specialized Subject: Landscape Installation and Maintenance

Landscape Installation and Maintenance is one of the specialized subjects under the technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) career track. Some examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include:

 

• Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECS)
  • Assessment of personal competencies and skills
• Environment and Market
  • Key concepts of market
  • Players in the market
  • Products and services available in the market
  • Consumer analysis
• Landscape Installation
  • Site analysis and inventory
  • Concept and planting plans
  • Site clearing and grubbing or excavating activities
  • Rough grading operation
  • Site preparation activities
  • Installation of plants at designated locations as designed in the planting plan
  • Installation of plant support
  • Installation of plant props/braces or propping bracing
• Maintenance Operation
  • Trimming and pruning of landscape plants
  • Weeding and cultivation
  • Fertilizer application
  • Watering of plants
  • Control and prevention of plant pest and diseases
  • Plant support
  • Lawn grass maintenance
  • Replanting activities

While studying, you will also be asked to demonstrate what you have learned by participating in class activities that may include the following:

• Recognizing PECs needed in landscape installation and maintenance
• Recognizing and understanding the market in landscape installation and maintenance
• Creating new business ideas in landscape Installation and maintenance
• Drafting and preparing a planting plan appropriate for the area
• Removing unwanted vegetation and debris according to instructions
• Protecting trees designed to be retained according to standards
• Gathering and disposing of waste materials in accordance with environmental standards
• Performing rough site grading to achieve desired elevations or slopes
• Grading the site to drain surface water and shape the land
• Protecting the newly graded site against disturbance and potential hazards
• Adding amended soil/soil mix to cultivated land
• Inspecting delivered plants based on the plant list or planting plan
• Laying out or staking out plants
• Applying / installing mulch
• Installing plant guy
• Identifying compacted soil
• Cultivating compacted soil
• Identifying requirements of landscape plants
• Identifying requirements for removal and replanting of landscape plants
• Segregating and process collected organic waste
• Making use of organic waste
• Performing post-disposal and utilization of organic waste

These examples only cover the scope of the specialized subjects under the technical-vocational livelihood career track. For the scope of the core and contextualized subjects under the senior high school curriculum, please refer to their respective lists.