It has been a while since I’ve written about root flares. I got some photos from my friend Carl Cathcart the other day, showcasing the excavation of a hemlock root flare. This tree is one of a hedge of 7-8′ tall hemlocks planted two years ago. Its owner had noticed that while the hedge wasn’t [...]
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Hemlock root flare excavation
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged air spade, Carl Cathcart, innovative arboriculture, landscape architecture, Matt Foti, Plant management, Plants, root excavation, root flare, tree planting, trees on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
iPhone apps for landscape architects
Posted in Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, Working Landscape, tagged AutoStitch Panorama, Convertbot, iPhone apps, iPhone apps for architects, iPhone apps for landscape architects, iPhone apps for landscape architecture, landscape architecture, My Measures on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m still getting used to the idea of my phone as a serious tool, but I find I’m using it more and more. Here are some apps I’ve come to rely on: . I was taking site measurements with Susan Opton when she showed me My Measures and Dimensions. My Measures doesn’t actually take 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 [...]
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 [...]
How we see and how we say it
Posted in Deb's posts, Education, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, Site Engineering, slope, spatial design on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toby’s latest post in his site engineering series reminded me that there’s yet another consideration in how we define slope — the audience to whom we’re communicating. When I’m discussing the pitch of a walk with another landscape architect, I’ll talk about it as a percentage (“From the wall to the driveway the walk slopes [...]
archipelago
Posted in Places, Working Landscape, tagged John McManus, Marine Mammal Center, McManus Architects, New Balance Marine Mammal Center, New England Aquarium, Northern Fur Seals, Rockwork, Winston Churchill on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Winston Churchill was advocating that Britain’s House of Commons, destroyed in the war, be rebuilt in its old configuration, he cited the way the building’s design had influenced the debates that went on there, famously saying “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” The House of Commons fosters loud and lively debate. The [...]
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