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completed by people
Rowan Moore, here: I’m told, by people who don’t suffer from the radical unmusicality which is my personal affliction, that in music pauses are as important as the notes. Something similar is true of...
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“here is a hint of unbridled wildness”
“Park vs. Park“ in the Times. Actually quite good. As for the forest, go there when it’s hot — the temperature is 15 degrees cooler. Your breathing will change. You’ll find yourself speaking in hushed...
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Landscape is a process.
Two stories from the front page of the New York Times say it better than I could. Whether it’s the trees in Central Park or the geese in Prospect Park, the Times seems to get that when it comes to...
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a friendly, interested advocate for what seems most alive
From poet Mark Doty, on teaching: All I can claim to have done is ask questions and make some statements about what I saw in the poems before me. I try to be a friendly, interested advocate for what...
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Dappled willow
About ten years ago, I noticed a mild fad rev up in the gardening world; all the garden centers around here started carrying Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, usually trained into standard form with a...
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Hemlock root flare excavation
It has been a while since I’ve written about root flares. I got some photos from my friend Carl Cathcart the other day, showcasing the excavation of a hemlock root flare. This tree is one of a hedge of...
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Boston hemlock
The other day I was on Beacon Hill and spotted this mostly dead hemlock tree, completely swathed in Boston ivy: Perhaps the owners were simply neglecting their courtyard garden, but I like to think...
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Thriving live hemlock
That last post made a good point — sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself — but I much prefer the photo here. This hemlock is very much alive, and lives...
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Weeping willow — the nature of the beast
A year ago I wrote a post on dappled willows (Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’), comparing one rigorously maintained specimen and one planted-and-forgotten specimen. Two takeaway points from that post (I...
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Root work
Contractors, arborists, and landscape architects in Massachusetts would do well to check out the Ecological Landscaping Association’s September events list. The ELA is offering a number of really good...
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And unlevelled places become a plain
In my work doing residential landscape architecture, I have encountered a number of instances where someone has bought a house on a sloping piece of land, getting what seems to be a steal. Usually, the...
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Making it work while making it beautiful
A quick post with kudos to Toby, who wrote this article about managing stormwater in the landscape for High Profile Monthly. High Profile showcases facility development projects (mainly in New...
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What trees need us to know
Last week at New England Grows, while Toby was manning the table for the Ecological Landscape Alliance (its shiny new name hasn’t made it onto the website yet, but the ELA is an outstanding...
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Renaissance view
Don’t you love that new header? Toby took the photo at the Crane Reservation in Ipswich, a property of The Trustees of Reservations. He said that for him it has the quality of an oil painting; I agree...
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If a tree falls in a garden…
Following up on the list post item from June 9, about what to use to replace a lost Norway maple: it will be a honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis ‘Shademaster’), placed slightly upslope from...
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