I was recently on Newbury Street in Boston. Turning away from the nifty pay-for-parking machine (these things have replaced meters on the street, and they couldn’t be more convenient, or more helpful for reducing street furniture clutter), I spotted this valiant little Gleditsia, working hard to stay alive: A little way down the street was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Plants’
Honey Locusts in the city
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, tagged Plants, trees on September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Crowding the bed
Posted in Deb's posts, Places, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, fothergilla, landscape architecture, plant habits, planting closely, Plants, shrub planting on September 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Harvard University has recently been building on Memorial Drive, along the Charles River. The site that had held a garden center (most recently, Mahoney’s, and before that, the Grower’s Market, where I sold Christmas trees one year) is now becoming a park and a graduate student dormitory. The dorm is done; the park (originally slated [...]
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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