Here’s a series of photos from an air-tool transplant project executed last week by a crew from Matthew R. Foti Landscape and Tree Service of Lexington, MA.These guys have been using air tools to bare-root trees for some time now, and they have refined the process pretty skillfully. Shown here are a very large treeform [...]
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Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged arboriculture in landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, spatial design, tree planting, trees on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is a landscape architect doing writing about these methods of tree planting and moving? Well, for one thing, I don’t like to waste woody plants. Planting an ingrown-root tree (or even a healthy one) in a new landscape without attending to the tree’s requirements — for rooting space, for decent soil porosity, for adequate [...]
quarry query
Posted in Walls, Working Landscape, tagged cambridge landscaping, David Phillips, illinois science + technology park, jl burke construction, mankato limestone, quarry waste, rockport granite, salvaged quarry stone on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sorry about that title. I’m curious about quarry waste, and whether that’s a resource that can be better utilized. Quarries that produce architectural stone end up rejecting stones that, due to inherent flaws or damage in the quarrying process, don’t meet architectural standards. Given a mason with the time, discernment, and connections to select individual [...]
Aim to miss
Posted in Cemeteries, Deb's posts, Places, Plant management, Working Landscape, tagged arboriculture, arborists, engage with landscape, landscape, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Swan Point Cemetery, tree pruning on June 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Shortly after posting Monuments and Trees (June 5), I had a note from Art Presson, the Superintendent of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. He wrote: “We too have noticed how rarely grave stones get wacked by falling trees. Mysterious intervention is a possible explanation. We had a 125 year old oak come down on top of a [...]
Grateful
Posted in Working Landscape, tagged craft, DeRenzo, landscape, landscape architecture, Turner Special Projects, ValleyCrest on May 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Design is usually at a remove, often a best guess, and always reliant on the skill and dedication of others. I am grateful to the people who build with seriousness, patience, creativity, and art.
layers
Posted in Working Landscape, tagged Boston Harbor, Harborwalk on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
18th Century wharf; 20th Century concrete Harborwalk; 21st Century wood Harborwalk. Each layer functions structurally as it did when it was built. The irregularities of each layer are reduced, but not eliminated, in the layer above. In a few weeks there will be a fourth layer. Cabled steel railings will make the edge less pure [...]
Action Plan
Posted in Working Landscape on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 overlapping: [...]
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