That last post made a good point — sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself — but I much prefer the photo here. This hemlock is very much alive, and lives outside of Boston on private property. Carl Cathcart, Consulting Arborist, took me to see this [...]
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Thriving live hemlock
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged hemlock, landscape, Plant management, Plants, sensory experience of landscape, tree planting, trees on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, tagged landscape architecture on August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From poet Mark Doty, on teaching: All I can claim to have done is ask questions and make some statements about what I saw in the poems before me. I try to be a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive in the work at hand. My ideal is for the writer I’m working [...]
Landscape is a process.
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, tagged landscape architecture on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Two stories from the front page of the New York Times say it better than I could. Whether it’s the trees in Central Park or the geese in Prospect Park, the Times seems to get that when it comes to landscape, change is built in. Of course, they’re not alone. Thomas Rainer gets it, and so [...]
both/and
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, Plants, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I should have known, of course. In a recent post on trees and pollen, I wrote: Bee-pollinated trees don’t bother to release the kind of pollen that makes you sneeze, and wind-pollinated plants don’t bother to attract bees. (There may be belt-and-suspenders plants out there that can be pollinated by wind but would like also to be pollinated by [...]
Ceci n’est pas un arbre
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, Questions, What we're thinking, tagged landscape architecture on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or, ‘This is not a tree’. Thinking again about, and then past the pollen issue, I wonder if humans had such strong allergic reactions in pre-industrial times. In much the same way that we have been using the world’s oceans as a dumping ground for every substance we don’t want to deal with, we have [...]
Then he took Berlin
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Places, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged Berlin Wall, Brian Rose on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Brian Rose’s website, the subject of yesterday’s post, also features his photos of the Berlin Wall and its environs before, during, and after its fall. He writes about the experience of place in Berlin, and for anyone whose knowledge of the Wall is limited (mine was derived mainly from watching Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire [...]
First he took Manhattan…
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged Brian Rose, New York landscape on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A friend recently sent me a link to the website of Brian Rose, a New York photographer. Mr. Rose’s work is worth a look (or two or three); his photo series called New York Primeval chronicles his exploration of ‘wild’ parts of NYC. Knowing that Manhattan, at least, has been invaded with all sorts of [...]
strange but not a stranger
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An extended quote, here, on collaboration: Why collaborate at all? One could conceivably make more money not sharing the profits — if there are any — so why collaborate if one doesn’t have to? If one can write alone, why reach out? And besides, isn’t it risky? Suppose you don’t get along? Suppose the other [...]
Sign
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As I was driving down a Cambridge street last Tuesday this scene caught my eye. My heartfelt good wishes and thanks to whatever forward-thinking kind soul who planted these crocus bulbs and let them naturalize through the lawn; after a long and cold and grey winter they were balm for the eyes. Apologies for the [...]
Deskside greenery
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged Plants on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another grey and cold day in a long, cold month. Going to my desk and working is a good antidote to the gloominess, especially when the Cattleya next to my drawing board blooms (as it did last fall), or the Ripsalis in the window each January reliably turns from a mop of green string into [...]
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