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’s size as an asset to the place, and decided to use the deadwood as an [...]
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Boston hemlock
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, spatial design, trees, vines on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Dappled willow
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices, shrub pruning on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, usually trained into standard form with a 3-4′ high stem and a pompom of foliage at top. Hakuro Nishiki, also known as Dappled Willow, is a fast-growing, twiggy [...]
a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, tagged landscape architecture on August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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’m working [...]
Landscape is a process.
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, tagged landscape architecture on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Two stories from the front page of the New York Times say it better than I could. Whether it’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’re not alone. Thomas Rainer gets it, and so [...]
“here is a hint of unbridled wildness”
Posted in Landscape architecture, Places, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture on July 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Park vs. Park“ 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, [...]
completed by people
Posted in Landscape architecture, Places, Toby's posts, tagged bad architecture, landscape architecture, promenade plantee, Rowan Moore, where to sit on June 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rowan Moore, here: I’m told, by people who don’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 [...]
Renaissance view
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Places, Plant management, tagged Crane Reservation, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, spatial design, The Trustees of Reservations on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Don’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 [...]
If a tree falls in a garden…
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Places, Plant management, Plants, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, spatial design, tree planting, waterfront on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 ‘Shademaster’), 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 [...]
My phone applications
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, What we're thinking, tagged landscape architecture, technology on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Voice. That’s it. My phone lets me talk, and listen to someone on the other end; if I’m working, I can plug a headset in or hit the speaker phone button. And use the ‘Mute’ button if necessary. I opened Toby’s iPhone app post with reservations, having felt saturated recently with iPhone app ‘articles’ that [...]
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