Roadside Vegetation Concept and Planning Manual

• Complete Manual
• For users on slower connections, we offer four segmented downloads.
  • 1 - The Covers
  • 2 - Pages 2-108
  • 3 - The Plant Palette
  • 4 - Pages 121-166
• Covers
• Inside Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • Benefits and rationale for roadside landscape design and management
  • Objectives of the manual
  • Audiences for the manual
• History and Tradition of Roadside Vegetation
  • Legislation relevant to roadside vegetation
  • History of roadside landscape design
  • Elements of landscape as they apply to roadsides
• Public Opinion
• Design Opportunities and Limiting Factors
  • Defining roadside zones
  • Clear zone distances
  • Drainage issues
  • Utility locations
  • Lines of sight
  • Erosion control
  • Functions of roadside vegetation
• Landscape Planning Process
  • Site inventory
  • Roadway limitations
  • Climate and growth conditions
  • Cultural and historical characteristics
  • Design approach description and selection
  • Regional approach
  • Regional-ornamental approach
  • Fully ornamental approach
  • Selection
  • Landscape layers and elements
  • Ground layer
  • Shrub layer
  • Tree layer
  • Installation and maintenance strategies
  • Editing
  • Cutting back
  • Routine mowing
  • Periodic
  • Discontinued mowing
  • Deliberate planting
  • Illustrated examples
  • Examples of the regional design approach
  • Examples of the regional-ornamental design approach
  • Examples of the fully ornamental design approach
• The Plant Palette: Charts by Plant Type
• Cost Analysis
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Checklists-Inventory of Site Conditions
  • Appendix B: Cross Reference of Plant Palette by Common Name
  • Appendix C: Illustrated Plant Palette: Selected Examples
  • Appendix D: Recommended References
• Literature Cited
• Glossary
• Index