Tom Ryan*, my first landscape architecture mentor, and I have discussed the desirability of specifying that the trees and shrubs we design into a site be planted bare root whenever possible. As long as the roots can be kept moist — something now entirely possible with the use of hydrogels — most nursery-grown plants fare [...]
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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 [...]
Landscape architects?
Posted in Places, Plant management, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, landscape architects, landscape architecture, plant knowledge, Plant management, Plants on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, yes, I know. I’ve been posting on shrub pruning and management, something most often left to the gardeners. And I’m a landscape architect — people think of us as the ones to go to for design. But how can you design a place without really knowing the elements in your palette, including the most [...]
Tree spacing1
Posted in Gristmill, Places, tagged Plant management, Plants, tree planting, tree spacing, trees on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every now and again I come across an opinion about tree spacing: someone loves to cram trees close together, someone else protests that anything less than specimen-width spacing leads to poor air circulation and disease. Maybe it really depends on the effect for which you’re aiming. Here’s a photo of the entry drive at [...]
VFW Parkway
Posted in Plants, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, planting for the future, planting for the long term, Plants, tree planting, tree spacing, trees on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I drove in to Boston yesterday along the DCR’s VFW Parkway, a slightly winding, mildly rolling roadway lined on both sides and on the median with rows of mature pin oaks. My eye reflexively looks out for hazard limbs whenever I drive the parkway, and yesterday I saw a couple of doozies: one 20-30′ [...]
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