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 »
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 [...]
Deskside landscape
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged cartoons, humor, landscape architects at work on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Years ago, a friend lent me a copy of this originally tiny ad from Nature magazine; clearly, it had already been copied and enlarged quite a few times before I got a copy of the friend’s copy. I keep it next to my desk, sometimes for encouragement, sometimes for a laugh. When a different mood [...]
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 [...]
Herbie
Posted in Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, tree planting, trees on January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I just wrote a post on Herbie, the champion American elm in Yarmouth, Maine, that was taken down last week after a life that spanned more than two centuries. The post, at Taking Place In The Trees, included several photos I took the day before Herbie came down. In his prime, Herbie was the largest [...]
Gold
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking on November 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I woke with the words of one of my college English professors, Richard Sewall, repeating in my head. At the end of a busy semester, he had tried to inspire our class to continue to read the good stuff (it was with him that we read Moby Dick, still one of [...]
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. [...]
Small-space gardening
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, hedge alternatives, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices, small-space gardening on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We’ve all seen photos of grand mixed and perennials borders on old country estates (Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Beatrix Farrand), and of sweeps of perennials, grasses and shrubs by the contemporary designer Piet Oudolf and landscape architects Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden. They’re dramatic and luxurious-looking, and it’s easy to envision being right there, [...]
Older, and perhaps slower still
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If we’re talking about slow, how about Florence’s Ponte Vecchio? Or Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England? Although the more built up a bridge is the more limited the river views. Both these bridges house little shops along the roadway; slowness along them is likely to come from being distracted by stuff to buy.
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