Deb’s post raises all kinds of interesting questions. What I wonder about, once a big tree is down, is what if anything gets planted in its place? Does the removal of a tree in an actively managed cemetery generally trigger the planting of one or more new ones, or is the site of the removed tree [...]
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. . . the harder they fall (and then what?)
Posted in Cemeteries, Places, Plant management, Toby's posts, tagged arboretum management, cemetery, landscape architecture, tree replacement, tree selection on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aim to miss
Posted in Cemeteries, Deb's posts, Places, Plant management, Working Landscape, tagged arboriculture, arborists, engage with landscape, landscape, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Swan Point Cemetery, tree pruning on June 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Shortly after posting Monuments and Trees (June 5), I had a note from Art Presson, the Superintendent of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. He wrote: “We too have noticed how rarely grave stones get wacked by falling trees. Mysterious intervention is a possible explanation. We had a 125 year old oak come down on top of a [...]
Trees and monuments
Posted in Cemeteries, Deb's posts, Places, Plants, tagged Swan Point Cemetery, trees on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I once heard a talk by an arborist from Mount Auburn Cemetery, and remember most clearly his describing how, when a tree or part of a tree falls in the cemetery, for some reason there’s usually little to no damage to the headstones and monuments. Time after time he’d seen this phenomenon, and while he [...]
Swan Point Cemetery wall
Posted in Cemeteries, Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, tagged cemetery design, details, dressed granite, solid construction, stone walls on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planting close
Posted in Cemeteries, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, Plants, tree planting, tree spacing, trees on June 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One thread of this running conversation is the idea of setting plant close to each other, and then seeing how they elbow and jostle for space and light. In this image the idea is taken to its extreme: a mature Chamaecyparis pisifera snuggles up to a mature Quercus alba in Providence’s Swan Point Cemetery. I [...]
words and weather
Posted in Cemeteries, Miscellaneous, Toby's posts, tagged bronze, cemetery design, landscape, wabi sabi, weathering on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
more type outdoors
Posted in Cemeteries, Miscellaneous, Toby's posts, tagged bronze, cemetery design, landscape, stone, Walnut Hills Cemetery, weathering on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the outdoorsy type
Posted in Cemeteries, Miscellaneous, tagged bronze, cemetery, cemetery design, landscape, moss, stone, Walnut Hills Cemetery, weathering on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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