So, what to do? If people don’t know our capabilities (as a profession, as individuals), the invitation to the table is not going to happen. And it’s hard to crash a party when you don’t even know when and where it’s happening.
Here are some thoughts, none of them especially original or well-informed, all [...]
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Action Plan
Posted in Working Landscape on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
patience and vigor
Posted in Plants, Working Landscape on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I like the idea of the plants finding their place and relationships together. This also works on the level of the individual plant. The smaller the plant, the better able it is to adapt its habit to its circumstances. Any tree planted, say, in a location with a lot of light on one side and [...]
mixed plantings and succession
Posted in Plants, Working Landscape on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I posted earlier on plantings at the Mandarin Oriental. The one that I’m enjoying the most, right now, is a dense planting of Limber Pine, Swiss Stone Pine, and Sassafras. One of my co-workers who visited the site assumed the Sassafras were volunteers (from what source they would have self-seeded I’m not sure), which both [...]