That last post made a good point — sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself — 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Plant management’
Thriving live hemlock
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged hemlock, landscape, Plant management, Plants, sensory experience of landscape, tree planting, trees on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Small-space gardening
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, hedge alternatives, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices, small-space gardening on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We’ve all seen photos of grand mixed and perennials borders on old country estates (Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Beatrix Farrand), and of sweeps of perennials, grasses and shrubs by the contemporary designer Piet Oudolf and landscape architects Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden. They’re dramatic and luxurious-looking, and it’s easy to envision being right there, [...]
Taking Place In The Trees
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged Plant management, Plants on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Announcing a new blog! Toby and I would like to keep Taking Place a site for conversation on landscape architectural issues, and it has become clear that my woody plant posts could overwhelm this blog in way we hadn’t planned. So I’ve just started another blog, a sister to this one, called Taking Place In [...]
Greenery en masse
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Hamamelis planting in the last post raises the issue of mass plantings, which have long been a favorite of many landscape architects. I remember a mass rose planting, no longer extant, in a very public location in downtown Boston. One time I went out to do a little guerilla pruning in it with an [...]
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