Posted in equipment, hardscapes on November 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last week I posted about these iron pots that I had picked up at the local auction.
[The pots in question. ]
In the comment’s section Jonathan asked about the sizes of these pots this was my reply:
I’d say they’re somewhere between 30″-36″ in diameter and a good 18″ deep. They are some good size pots, and [...]
Posted in stone, waterfalls, tagged Ash Cave, Hocking Hills on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[ Ash Cave in SE Ohio during the Summer season. ]
This is a perfect example of Blackhand Sandstone. The sandstone at the top of the formation is harder than the lower stone. Causing this wear pattern where the lower stone wears away leaving this spectacular overhang.
This unique formation of sandstone is called Ash Cave a [...]
Posted in landscape design, nature, tagged aircraft carrier, golf course, photoshop on November 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Now for something completely different, of the photoshop variety. I must say this is pretty clever and a tip of the hat to the creator-whom I can’t seem to find.
[ Image was originally found on BLDGBLOG. ]
The link for the image sent me here, then that link sent me to here. So I was not [...]
Posted in equipment, tagged ax, axes, firewood, Fiskars on November 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Usually I have some sort of an Appreciation of Stone, or this, or this . . . on the weekends, but today I am feeling appreciative of one of my favorite tools . . . My Fiskar’s ax.
Over the years I have used several axes and different types of wood splitting tools and the ax [...]
Posted in design principles, nature, waterfeatures, tagged snow, winter on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
This afternoon I was sitting at my second favorite diner eating breakfast after a tough morning.
How tough a morning?
How about root canal tough, that’s tough. Anyway as I was gingerly eating my ham and cheese omelet and sipping coffee my attention wandered to the scene outside . . .
Snow . . . that’s right snow. [...]
Posted in landscape design, tagged planters, pots on November 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I thought these cast iron pots might be worth sharing. Recently we found these at a local auction we attend on a regular basis.. It’s the type of auction held at the same location, same time every week, and you never know what may show up each week.
[ These are the iron pots. ]
What to [...]
Posted in animals, nature, plant material on November 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
From Speigel Online. This is something you don’t see everyday. I’d say it goes beyond the typical gathering of large pumpkins.
[Bruno Bohrer and his horse of gourds. ]
I’m sure this brings some business his way.
I grow gourds but I do not think I will grow this many next year. If I did it would have [...]
Posted in Associations, renderings on November 8, 2007 | No Comments »
This may start off a little off-track, but I am going to try and bring it around to our industry.
Oil prices continue to rise, which means gas prices continue to rise. I have read/heard several knowledgeable people remark that gas will be $3.50 a gallon next year-not spike to that price but go there and [...]
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, drawings, renderings on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
My great desire to become a better illustrator as a landscape designer has me always looking at other type of illustration and designed illustration. Here are a couple of examples of what I speak of. Cool stuff, to me anyway .
[ I think this is great stuff, the detail, the effort. ]
Here’s another one [...]
Posted in nature, tagged possts, trees on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I am just amazed at the amount of traffic this post is still getting.
It seems that it comes up pretty high on the search engines when searching for trees, Trees, tree.
A note here, I have still not been able to find out who took that photo of that tree, or where it is on the [...]
Posted in nature, streams, waterfeatures on November 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[The stones that hold the stream edge together sell the illusion.]
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, tagged Adrian Higgins, Gordon Hayward, Washington Post on November 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Adrian Higgins of the Washington Post has written another great article (print page link) on residential landscape design. This one focuses on a lecture he attended where Gordon Hayward spoke about small garden design.
This lecture at a symposium at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton was also a good chance for Hayward to promote his new book [...]
My hope is to use this site to spread some info about the art and practice of Landscape Design. It is a very misunderstood profession; I do not cut grass like the next door neighbor's cousin who carries 3 mowers and a blower in the back of his truck.
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