Posted in landscape design, plant material, tagged Elephant Ears, old pictures on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Say you wanted to do something a little different, a little clever, a little off the wall? I mean why not, you are a professional Landscape Designer? Aren’t you?
Well at least some of you are. Professional(s) . . . that is.
So here’s a website that is so simple and easy to use it’s almost ridiculous, [...]
Posted in plant material, stone on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Somewhere in SE Ohio. ]
Posted in design principles, nature, plant material, tagged Elephant Ears on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Daydreamin’ today about the good ole days of Summer.
[Just how big did those "Ears" get?]
Anybody else ready to look at some green? Plus they all are coming from the South so these events are 1/3 rain, 1/3 sleet, and 1/3 ice, and 1/3 snow . . . I know, I know . . . [...]
Posted in gardendesign, nature, plant material on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back in March of last year I wrote a long post about Carl Linnaeus, Horologium flore, and the Flower Clock. I wrote something to the effect of how cool and idea it was and that I was not that thrilled with the idea of pulling this off on a practical basis.
Let alone an impractical one.
[At [...]
Posted in design principles, nature, plant material, tagged field art, robots on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A while back I posted a few pictures of farmers in Japan who created art in rice fields. Pretty low-tech stuff, but very beautiful. Now I come across this unusual form of land art.
Completely different in style and really different in how the art is made-really completely different.
The group work is called the Landprint Project [...]
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, plant material, tagged drought on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’d like to hear from some of you who live in parts of the country where drought has been a problem this year. I keep hearing about problems,and how water restrictions have really changed how some folks look at their landscaping.
Knowing that, I am curious about a few things, and have some questions.
How has it [...]
Posted in gardendesign, plant material on October 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hey folks this guy; James Sinclair, can garden, he can garden like a mad man-I ain’t a kiddin’.
I am giving you 2 links one to his main garden page at his garden called Blackpitts(I wonder if I’ll name my garden someday), the other is to the home page where you can click on a lnk [...]
Posted in plant material on July 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a request from Blackswamp Girl(love the name) who wanted to see my garden, after a April fool’s Day post on this Blog.
[Just a little something. ]
Posted in color rendering, plant material, renderings on June 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
[Rendering shows 4-5 different types of grasses for Apt. Building]
This is a drawing to be shown during the concept(s) meeting to give the client an idea of what could happen if they choose to go with this style(presented in drawing) . . . renderings like this are(in my mind) to suggest possibilities . . . [...]
Posted in plant material on June 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Came across this interesting piece of video over at Ellis Hollow. This video by the Vienna vegetable Orchestra has absolutely nothing to do with Landscape Design. I mean nothing ties it together except; maybe, a little horticulture.
For the recored . . . I will never look at carrots the same way again.
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Addendum: Craig also mentions [...]
Posted in plant material on May 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Okay, here is the list to this date. I only took nominees from the comments, I did not take any from e-mail. I figure if you are going to bash a shrub-bash it in public. There are 10 shrubs listed some by botanical, some by common, and a couple listed by-the whole entire species e.g. [...]
Posted in color rendering, design principles, landscape architecture, plant material on May 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
For the cool price of $250,000 you can have this little beauty built for you in your own backyard. though for that much money you may want to put it in your front yard. Heck . . . it may be the house in the yard.
The photo comes from a story in Business Week, [...]
Posted in plant material on May 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It appears by lack of response that unlikable trees are more interesting to discuss. So Based on the few entries, I would guess it is time to move on.
In the next week or so we will move on to trees and shrubs we do like to have, and use in the landscape. We Designers sometime [...]
Posted in plant material, stuff on May 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Based on the hugely popular “Trees we do not like“, and “Vote for the Worst of the Worst-Trees” it is now time to bring you . . .
[Now that's a "Shrubbery", or see below]
Shrubs we do Not Like:
I have written about a few of these culprits in the past week or so, my offenders include:
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Posted in nature, plant material on May 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A brief interlude from bad , bad, terrible shrubs, to something of greatness, and a beauty that I am incapable of describing:
[The larger image will blow you away, by steverob50]
This is my favorite tree all-time, hands down regardless of situation, and this may be one of the most stunning photograph of Quercus virginia, [...]
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.
I will also pass along comments on industry happenings, events, etc., and any maybe a few other adventures going on in my world-after all this is "my" blog. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Questions? Drop me an e-mail.
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