Abstract:Gardening and Landscape Architecture in South China Agricultural University is a traditional dominant discipline, and the application course of landscape plants with solid foundation has become a specialty course. Taking the teaching practice of landscape plant application course in South China Agricultural University as an example, this paper introduces the application of case teaching method in this course from three aspects: the establishment of course case base, course organization and teaching, and teaching and learning effect assessment. And in order to evaluate the implementation effect, the questionnaire survey and students’ homework are combined with. The results show that it is helpful to stimulate students’ learning interest and initiative, deepen their understanding of the value and function of landscape plants, as well as to enhance their cognition of landscape plants, and the ability to select and configure plants from the perspectives of ecology, aesthetics and plant culture according to site characteristics and festival application purposes.