Last week a friend mentioned seeing a yellow-flowering shrub on the VFW Parkway in Boston. It reminded me of the show of Hamamelis that used to appear outside of the Harvard Business School’s Baker Library back in the early 80s; when I first saw it (this was a few years before I became a landscape [...]
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It’s that season
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged city plantings, Plants, urban plantings on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Landscape Architecture winter article
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, Working Landscape on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every month Landscape Architecture Magazine arrives in the mailbox, and some months I look through it quickly for pieces that catch my eye. Other months it has to go on the stack of periodicals next to my desk until I can pick it up on a slow day. The 2009 series on field sketching was [...]
Sweep
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
‘Balnahard Bay, Colonsay’ by Bryan Dickinson 1 September 2009 “Noticed the lines that the Marram grass was drawing in the wind…. Rain shower just as we were finishing, had to run for cover.” Piggybacking on your post, Toby, here’s another image from the same V & A exhibit; maybe two photos will compel even more [...]
Ground patterns
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous on January 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Massachusetts Arbor Day of Service
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plants, tagged engage with landscape, trees on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Arborists Association has a new volunteer initiative starting in 2010. They aim to build on the traditional Arbor Day celebration by instituting a statewide volunteer service day on that day, which falls on April 30, 2010. To get the ball rolling, the MAA is inviting anyone to identify potential tree care projects in [...]
…And then home to live another year
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, tagged living Christmas trees on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This article, appearing in today’s New York Times, describes the clever business run by a currently out-of-work landscape architect. Scott Martin, a California native, rents living Christmas trees to Los Angelenos wanting the presence, fragrance, and vitality of a living tree without having to find a home for it after the holidays. The trees rent [...]
What’s wrong with these pictures?
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Say you’re a growing country club in a nicely-treed community, and you need to enlarge your parking lot. And perhaps you want to lower its grade. The lot has some mature oak trees in it, and they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene, so you decide to save the trees by [...]
Landscape architecture
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, linkedin on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I mentioned my last post, Landscape by Landscape Architects, in the LinkedIn ASLA and BSLA group discussions, and got some great responses to the observation that the AIA, in this difficult economy, is aiming to position architects as the best professionals to do the infrastructure projects being funded by the economic stimulus. Several suggested that [...]
Landscape by landscape architects
Posted in Gristmill, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, tagged architecture, ASLA, landscape, landscape architecture on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last week my copy of The Architect’s Newspaper arrived, and yesterday I sat down with it at the breakfast table and read through. Page three opened with an editorial (‘Why We Do City Work’) by Julie Iovine and William Menking about architects and the hurdles they face in competing for public projects in various cities. [...]
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