Jordan University Of Science And Technology

College of Architecture & Design

Landscape

Dr.Nirmeen Al-Dalgamoni

Assignment 2 – Plant Selection

Ahmad Aqel 131742

Tawfiq Mahasneh 133779
 What are the functional uses of your plants, such
as: create space or outdoor rooms, block unsightly
views, stabilize steep slopes, etc.?
· What are the spatial characteristics of these
plants: size, form, color, foliage, and texture?
· What are the characteristics of spaces
created by modifying ground plane, vertical plane,
overhead plane both individually and collectively
using plants?
· What are the environmental requirements for
each plant, in terms of the best location, sun, and
wind?
· How is the plant represented graphically in
top view and elevation? (See the examples below)
Plants known from students studying agriculture , visiting the campus and and a
plantation in Jerash :

Pine ‫صنوبر‬
palm ‫نخيل‬
Olive ‫زيتون‬
Peruvian pepper ‫فلفل بيروفي‬
Carop ‫خروب‬
Elm ‫دردار‬
Mousehole tree ‫شجرة الفار‬
Trees
Firespike ‫اشواك النيران‬
Araucaria ‫اروكاريا‬ ‫مخالب القط‬
Melia azedarach ‫الزنزلخت‬ ‫النتانا‬
Flowers
Jacaranda ‫جكراندة‬ ‫جهنمية‬/‫مجنونة‬
Hawthorne ‫زعرور‬ ‫ ياسمينة‬mesnyi
Melaleuca Viminal's ‫شجرة الزجاج‬
Lemon cypress
‫سرو الليمون‬
Common box ‫شمشير‬
Shrubs
Japanese spindle ‫مضاض ياباني‬
Rosemary ‫اكليل الجبل‬
 Carop tree ‫الخروب‬
An ornamental tree in gardening and
landscape.

use carob trees for land care.

which makes carob trees a great fire
barrier.

is broad and semispherical

Blossom in autumn
borne on the trunk Flowers borne on the trunk

the flowers are small and numerous spirally

15 m tall arranged along the inflorescence axis

• Like dry, rocky sites and tolerate any soil except

heavy clay

10-20 cm

supported by a thick trunk with rough brown bark

 Melia azedarach
. Uses : azedarach is an invader of disturbed
habitats and is highly resistant to insects and
other pathogens
‫الزنزلخت‬
Blooms in summer The flowers are small and
fragrant , with five pale purple or lilac petals ,
growing in clusters .

7-15 m tall

The fruit is a drupe , marble sized ,

light yellow at maturity , hanging on
the tree all winter and gradually
becoming wrinkled and almost white.

It grows anywhere in
any soil except wet soil

Use in nostalgia landscapes

 Araucaria ‫اروكاريا‬
Use : The horizontal, spreading branches grow in whorls and are covered
Served as decorative furnishings for with leathery or needle-like leaver .
external and internal coordination. They are deciduous . Has no flowers but has male and female cones .

the female cones, usually high on the top of the

tree, are sphere shaped, and vary in size
among species from 7-25 cm diameter. They
contain 80–200 large edible seeds, similar to
pine nuts , though larger. The male cones are
smaller, 4–10 cm long.

• Has no fragrance

• Female cones mature in

autumn

• fertile, porous, sandy, peaty,

slightly acidic, well-drained
potting soil .

Height reaches up to5-40m

Jacaranda ‫جكراندة‬
The blue jacaranda is cultivated for the sake of its
large compound leaves, even in areas where it
rarely blooms. These leaves are up to 45 cm long
Height up and bi-pinnately compound, with leaflets little more
to 20 m than 1 cm long.

The flowers are up to

5 cm long, and are
grouped in 30 cm
panicles . They
appear in spring and
Its bark is thin and grey-brown, early summer, and last
smooth when the tree is young but for up to two months.
eventually becoming finely scaly.
The twigs are slender and slightly
zigzag; they are a light reddish-
brown
Use :
and-alone specimen tree Likes rich, well-drained soil .
large anchor for a garden bed They are followed by woody
lining the property border (where growing over seed pods, about 5 cm in
a neighbor's yard won't be a problem)
shade tree
diameter, which contain
along both sides of a large driveway to create numerous flat, winged seeds
an overhead arching effect
Hawthorne ‫زعرور‬

1-3 cm

Bloom from April to June

Height from 5-15m (spring ) , the colors are
white and pink
Prefer well-drained soil
These are the best place to start if clients want to encourage birds or
small mammals into their gardens. Then there are the battered and
windswept trees growing in some of the most inhospitable parts of our Fruit from late summer to late autumn
countryside, a testament to their adaptability.
Peruvian pepper ‫فلفل بيروفي‬
evergreen made up of 19-41
Fruit grow in spring
alternate leaflets Red colored
4–9 cm
wide

8–25 cm
long
1.5-3 cm
Grows
up to
Flowers are small and white
15 m Blossom in spring
tall No fragrance
and
Texture: fine
wide
Suitable for: light (sandy), medium
(loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and
prefers well-drained soil.

7-10mm
Yucca
Rosettes of evergreen ,
tough , sword shaped
leaves

Grows 3 – 4
m tall with a
1-1.5m
spread

banana yucca
fruit ripens in early to
mid-fall

Yuccas have a distinctive look that adds beauty to a

large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers.
landscape of tropical or succulent plants. Their long
Bloom in the middle of summer
vertical stems bear clusters of flowers, which are usually
white and often bell-shape.
Melaleuca viminalis ‫شجرة الزجاج‬
Blossoms large number
of bright red bottlebrush
flowers in spring and
summer .
35–50
mm in
Grows up
diameter
to 10 m The flowers are bright red and are arranged in spikes on
and around the ends of branches which continue to
40–100 grow after flowering .
mm Flowering occurs from September to December
long

25-138 mm long , 3-27 mm wide , 3.8–4.8 mm long

very narrow elliptical to narrow
egg-shaped with the narrower end
towards the base and the other
end tapering to a sharp point.
5–6 mm in diameter
Fruit are woody capsules
Common box ‫شمشير‬
The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, They are slow-growing evergreen
and leathery; they are small in most species,
shrubs and small trees, growing to 2–12
typically 1.5–5 cm long and 0.3–2.5 cm broad ,
they turn yellow in winter . m tall.

The flowers are small and yellow-green , appear in

April and May.

The fruits is a small capsule 0.5–1.5 cm long,

containing several small seeds

Suitable for: light (sandy), medium

(loamy) and heavy (clay) soils, prefers
well-drained soil
Japanese spindle ‫مضاض ياباني‬
2-8 m tall

Flower in May and June ,

greenish-white color

Oval leaves 3–7 cm They don’t have a fragrance

long with finely moist, fertile soil is preferred
serrated margins.

Its fruits are pink with orange seeds

Rosemary ‫اكليل الجبل‬
is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen with white,
pink, purple, or blue flowers , bloom in spring and
summer

Forms range from upright to trailing

Rosemary is used as a decorative plant in

gardens. The leaves are used to flavor various
foods

well-drained, loamy, slightly acidic soil. The

Needle-like leaves , 2–4 cm preferred soil pH is between 6.0 and 7.0.
the upright forms can reach 1.5 m tall, long and 2–5 mm broad,
rarely 2 m .
Lantana ‫النتانا‬

Arranged in clusters The leaves are

4-10 mm broadly ovate , rough

Small shrub 1.5-7 cm

Grows till 2 m tall

Come in many different colores , including red, yellow, white,

pink and orange, which differ depending on location in
inflorescences, age, and maturity.
Fragrance .
Bloom nonstop from late spring through frost .
Prefer a well-drained loose to sandy soil of
average fertility.
Uncaria tomentosa ‫مخالب القط‬

Bellis White small petals

7ml long

Bloom between April

and June

yellow florets that are 5

ml long and 5 ml wide

5-20 cm
Can grow to length up to 30 m
Leaves are elliptic with a smooth edge
Bright yellow flower in late spring ,
no fragrance
7-10 cm wide
Bougainvillea ‫الجهنمية‬
Ornamental vines bushes and trees

The flowers bloom May – December

,are pink, magenta, purple, red,
orange, white, or yellow , has
fragrance , 5-7 cm long.

5-7 cm

The leaves are simple ovate-

acuminate, 4–13 cm long and
2–6 cm broad.
The vine species grow anywhere from
1 - 12 m
Jasminum mesnyi
Evergreen shrubs grows to 3 m tall an 1- Can be grown as a slender climber , both fragrant and unscented
2 m wide
Usually found has semi-double flowers Blooms in winter and spring

1.5 –
3 cm

fragrant yellow flowers in spring

and summer.
Gazania
15-25 cm
tall
25 cm
wide

No fragrance

25 cm

Yellow and orange shades , blooms in late spring and summer

Mesembryanthemum cordifolium ‫سبيب‬

long-lasting flower

known as ice plants because of the glistening

globular bladder cells covering their stems, fruit
and leaves, they sparkle like ice crystals

Plants only rise to about 10 cm tall but

prostrate stems reach up to about 60 cm
long

Flowers between august and October

No fragrance
THANK YOU !!