Monday, October 30, 2006

The Importance of Hardescape Design

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Brick Hardscape Ideas This walkway/patio was one of those tricky designs on paper that you hoped would work out on the ground. It's like...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

An Appreciation of Stone 15

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Hidden Millstones In the above photo the unfinished millstones (grindstones) are sitting in stacks so high, long, and deep it almost looks...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Feed the Birds Day

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Dinner Time Tomorrow is Feed the Birds Day, Saturday the 28th. Now I do not know who proclaimed this, or certified this, or what makes the 2...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Creating a Forest Garden

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My forest in the fall The area you are looking at is the start of my forest garden, luckily for me I have this great canopy to work with. Fr...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

ANLA, Management Clinic

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Every year in Louisville, KY. the American Nursery and Landscape Association ( ANLA ) holds their yearly conference, they call it The Manage...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

An Appreciation of Stone 14

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These Gate columns were laying in the stone yard of a demo/excavator not far from where I live. What I would like to point out here is the l...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

The Demise of the Pink Flamingo ????

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 Say it ain't so ??? Could it really be happening? Could it be the end of the Pink Flamingo? This great American Icons days look to be n...

A Stonemason's website

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 I have been meaning to put up a link to The Unturned Stone for a while and haven't gotten around to it till now. The photo they have u...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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Entryway, continued from yesterday . . . This rough rendering over the photo, gives me an idea of how a fountain may work into the landscape...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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Conceptual drawing for entryway This drawing was to give the clients a look at a more formal entrway to their front door. Usung a circular d...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Sidoarjo, Indonesia no place for me

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Mud, mud, and more mud Indonesia has been having a rough time of it lately with all types of natural disasters. Including earthquakes, volca...

An Appreciation of Stone 13

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Waterfall, approx. 2.0' high  The combination of very large stones, medium size, and smaller stone is what helps bring realism to this s...
Friday, October 13, 2006

27 Books Every landscape Designer should Read

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Ta-da! a blog post with a list. I believe this is my second post with a list . . . the 1st was about Viburnums. Anyway as requested here you...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Nepenthes truncata what a carnivore

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So just when you think Nepenthes truncata only eats insects, you learn something new .
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Ahhh, I wouldn't call them Landscape Designers

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 Other folks call them Visionary Artist. I've seen the term folk artist thrown around for this type of thing. At any rate what all these...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Hybridizers keep on hybridizing

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 A nice article from the Washington Post on the quest for the perfect plant. Including some of the newest varities and a sneak peek at some...
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

An Appreciation of Stone 12

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Setting the Big Boulders !!!! Now this is fun . . . . More shots of this project at my  web-site . 
Friday, October 06, 2006

Stone Wall; Retention and Walkway

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A early conceptual, click to enlarge A interesting story behind this conceptual drawing. A drawing that was never finished. A drawing that h...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Over 200 Post on Blogger

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A small milestone for me, and most likely of no use to anyone else. The only reason to publicly note this is that I have a long way to go an...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Sectional, and Plan View Drawing

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Sketchbook drawings, on-site These conceptual drawings are from the same job site as yesterday.  Yes, I know  . . . I wrote yesterday about ...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Conceptual Rendering, Waterfall

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A Waterfall Rendering-selling stone.  These 2 landscape renderings were drawn into my sketchbook on the job site. Normally thses days I make...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Plants; Native vs. Exotic

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Another article about the aggressive nature of  exotics  vs. what was there in the  native   landscape. The reason I post this  article  fro...
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Green Industry Conference

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*PLANET* which is a merger between ALCA and PLCAA, the Landscape Contractors group and the  Professional Landcare group is just about ready...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Discovery Home Channel

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 Aaaaaaaarrrghhh!!! even though it is no longer Talk like a Pirate Day , all I can say is aaaaaaaarrghhh. This morning I caught a show calle...
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