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 »
Boston hemlock
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, spatial design, trees, vines on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was on Beacon Hill and spotted this mostly dead hemlock tree, completely swathed in Boston ivy: Perhaps the owners were simply neglecting their courtyard garden, but I like to think that they saw the mature tree’s size as an asset to the place, and decided to use the deadwood as an [...]
Dappled willow
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices, shrub pruning on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
About ten years ago, I noticed a mild fad rev up in the gardening world; all the garden centers around here started carrying Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, usually trained into standard form with a 3-4′ high stem and a pompom of foliage at top. Hakuro Nishiki, also known as Dappled Willow, is a fast-growing, twiggy [...]
My phone applications
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, What we're thinking, tagged landscape architecture, technology on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Voice. That’s it. My phone lets me talk, and listen to someone on the other end; if I’m working, I can plug a headset in or hit the speaker phone button. And use the ‘Mute’ button if necessary. I opened Toby’s iPhone app post with reservations, having felt saturated recently with iPhone app ‘articles’ that [...]
Grist for the mill — landscape architects talk
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged ASLA, ISA, landscape, landscape architecture, LID Center, native plants, North End Parks, Rose Kennedy Greenway, spatial design, stone walls on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every now and again Toby and I get together at a local coffeehouse to talk about our practices and about landscape architectural issues in general. Conversation never lags — as we did when we worked together at Copley-Wolff, and over meals with other LA friends, and even before then, when we were both grad students [...]
Memorial
Posted in Deb's posts, Landscape architecture, Places, What we're thinking, tagged commemoration, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, memorial design, sensory experience of landscape on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Downtown Boston teemed with people this past holiday weekend. Stroller brigades patrolled the streets, the scent of sunscreen wafted through the breeze, and a general air of well-being rested like a pleasantly warm blanket over the city. Friday, I had walked through Boston Common and seen the simple and remarkable memorial to Massachusetts’ fallen military [...]
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 [...]
Pollen’s only part of the story
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ZZZZZZZZZZZZSSSSSSDDDDchew!! Excuse me; Toby’s photo of the pollinating pine in that last post just makes my nose tickle. His points about pollinating trees make sense to me; wind-pollinated trees are different in nature from insect-pollinated trees, and have quite different effects on those allergic to fine particulates. I have to say that Mr. Ogren’s original [...]
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 [...]
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