In that last post, I don’t mean to imply that all veneer stone walls come from shady dealings, by any means, or that they are bad in and of themselves. I use veneer stone walls in plenty of my projects, and veneer is a valuable construction method in any number of applications. Often they are [...]
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New stone, old stone
Posted in Materials, Miscellaneous, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, stone, stone walls on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Stone walls for the taking? Let’s hope not.
Posted in Materials, Miscellaneous, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, stone, stone walls on July 6, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Quite frequently I design a project that calls for one or more stone walls, and almost as frequently the stone I specify is New England fieldstone. Fieldstone walls are ubiquitous in this part of the world, and a good wall, even if it’s newly constructed, can help give structure and readability to a landscape. Because [...]
Ouch
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Materials, Plant management on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Treehugger calls them chic living chairs but Landscape + Urbanism calls them the bad idea of the week. Yanko Design includes a long quote from designer Michael Bussier, who concludes “It is time for man and nature to reunite.”
Fences 1
Posted in Fences, Materials, Miscellaneous on March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One March day, Rhode Island rural landscape. Wooden edges.
Beautiful Mulch
Posted in Materials, Plants on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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