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Official Requirements & Fillable Workbook · 2026 Edition
Landscape Architecture looks at the outdoor spaces where people live, walk, and gather. You will visit a completed project to critique its circulation and plantings, identify native trees and shrubs, and measure an existing site to scale. Requirement 4 requires drafting your own full-scale landscape redesign plan with plant lists and materials.
Every requirement for the Landscape Architecture merit badge, word for word as published, with room to write under each one on the printed worksheet.
Go to a completed landscape project that a landscape architect has designed. Before you visit the site, obtain a plan of the design from the landscape architect if one is available.
After completing requirement 1, discuss the following with your counselor:
Identify five shrubs, five trees, and one ground cover, being sure that you select examples of different shapes, sizes, and textures. With the help of your counselor or a local nursery, choose plants that will grow in your area. Bring pictures of the different planting materials or, if possible, examples of their branches, leaves, or flowers to a group such as your troop or class at school. Be prepared to tell how you might use each in the design of a landscape and the maintenance that would follow.
After obtaining permission from the appropriate authority, look at and study a place of worship, school grounds, or a public building and identify where most people arrive by bus or car. Then do the following:
Identify three career opportunities that would use skills and knowledge in landscape architecture. Pick one and research the training, education, certification requirements, experience, and expenses associated with entering the field. Research the prospects for employment, starting salary, advancement opportunities, and career goals associated with this career. Discuss what you learned with your counselor and whether you might be interested in this career.
Scouting America last revised the Landscape Architecture requirements in 2017. That is the badge, not this sheet — an older year does not mean the worksheet is out of date.
This worksheet was checked against https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/landscape-architecture/ in Aug 2026 and reproduces the requirements word for word. Both dates are printed on the sheet, so a copy in a binder can always be placed in time.
Requirement text is © Scouting America, reproduced verbatim. The worksheet layout and design are original to this project.
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