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 [...]
Planting close
Posted in Cemeteries, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, Plants, tree planting, tree spacing, trees on June 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One thread of this running conversation is the idea of setting plant close to each other, and then seeing how they elbow and jostle for space and light. In this image the idea is taken to its extreme: a mature Chamaecyparis pisifera snuggles up to a mature Quercus alba in Providence’s Swan Point Cemetery. I [...]
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