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		<title>Thriving live hemlock</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2011/10/28/thriving-live-hemlock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That last post made a good point &#8212; sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself &#8212; 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2110&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston hemlock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s size as an asset to the place, and decided to use the deadwood as an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2104&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hemlock root flare excavation</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2011/06/20/hemlock-root-flare-excavation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I&#8217;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&#8242; tall hemlocks planted two years ago. Its owner had noticed that while the hedge wasn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2069&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dappled willow</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2011/06/07/dappled-willow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;Hakuro Nishiki&#8217;, usually trained into standard form with a 3-4&#8242; high stem and a pompom of foliage at top. Hakuro Nishiki, also known as Dappled Willow, is a fast-growing, twiggy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2055&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/08/21/a-friendly-interested-advocate-for-what-seems-most-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From poet Mark Doty, on teaching: All I can claim to have done is ask questions and make some statements about what I saw in the poems before me. I try to be a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive in the work at hand. My ideal is for the writer I&#8217;m working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2019&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape is a process.</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/08/17/landscape-is-a-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two stories from the front page of the New York Times say it better than I could. Whether it&#8217;s the trees in Central Park or the geese in Prospect Park, the Times seems to get that when it comes to landscape, change is built in. Of course, they&#8217;re not alone.  Thomas Rainer gets it, and so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2009&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;here is a hint of unbridled wildness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/07/11/here-is-a-hint-of-unbridled-wildness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Park vs. Park&#8220; in the Times. Actually quite good. As for the forest, go there when it’s hot — the temperature is 15 degrees cooler. Your breathing will change. You’ll find yourself speaking in hushed tones. The sounds are all birdsong and water, and the air is thick with the scent of lindens. At 146 acres, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2001&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>completed by people</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/06/20/completed-by-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rowan Moore, here: I&#8217;m told, by people who don&#8217;t suffer from the radical unmusicality which is my personal affliction, that in music pauses are as important as the notes. Something similar is true of architecture. The bits that are not there matter as much as those that are, as if buildings are only completed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1991&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renaissance view</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/06/18/renaissance-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you love that new header? Toby took the photo at the Crane Reservation in Ipswich, a property of The Trustees of Reservations. He said that for him it has the quality of an oil painting; I agree completely. It has that same dark/light/dark sequence, that same frame/focal point/background flavor as a painting by an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1978&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If a tree falls in a garden&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/06/15/if-a-tree-falls-in-a-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on the list post item from June 9, about what to use to replace a lost Norway maple: it will be a honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis &#8216;Shademaster&#8217;), placed slightly upslope from the Norway stump. Last week I visited the North Shore seaside site (where last year we revamped the drive court planting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1961&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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