Paolo Bürgi Landscape Architect: Discovering the Horizon: Mountain, Lake, and Forest (Source Books in Landscape Architecture)
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
*Click on photos to enlarge* Monkey Business Shown left, this new rose from Jackson & Perkins won the company's Floribunda of the year award. A deep banana-yellow color, it has a strong licorice or anise scent that can fill an entire room. The blooms appear on stems about 12 inches...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Nov 3- Jan 3, Holiday Train Show, Atlanta, GA Atlanta Botanical Garden, 404-876-5859 Nov 20-Dec 30,Fantasy in Lights, Pine Mounain, GA Callaway Gardens, 706-663-2281 Nov 21-Jan 10, Holiday Train Show, Bronx, NY NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700 Nov 21-Jan 3, Winter Show, Cleveland, OH Cleveland Botanical Garden, 216-721-1600 Nov 25-Jan 3...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In my years as a landscape designer, I’ve only had a couple of clients who were interested in high-maintenance gardens, and they’re just alike: They love to spend time working outdoors in the garden, favor unusual and hard-to-find plants, and are passionate about the way their garden looks. But the...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Garden Design Nov Dec 09 Climatic Challenge in Patagonia, AZ by designer Margaret Joplin. A Private Tropical Garden on Kauai by designer Andrea Lecusay. New England: Lengthening the short garden season with winter plantings. Conifers for year-round interest The American Gardener Nov Dec 09 Native Hollies: Part Two - Evergreens...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
You'd expect nothing less in the garden of Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ; and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Pollan and his wife hired local landscape designer Bernardo Lopez...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The first significant tropical botanical garden in the United States opens this weekend in Naples, Florida, designed by some of the country's leading landscape architects. Brian Holley, executive director of the new Naples Botanical Garden described it as "a world-class tropical paradise that is not only a sensory delight but...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There's a big move afoot among many gardeners to get rid of lawns, and here's the book that will tell you just how to do that. In his new book, The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn (Timber Press, 2009), nurseryman, designer and author John...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Just think ... how nice it would be to have an entire suburban street with landscapes like this one ... entire streets without lawns! It's just one of the new ideas that could become a reality ... thanks to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI), a collaborative effort to persuade homeowners,...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The campus of Cornell University has more than 7000 trees, and they're storing millions of pounds of carbon, worth more than half a million dollars to the university. A comprehensive tree inventory was recently conducted by two graduate students, as the university considers how to implement its pledge to achieve...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
(Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.) To launch its 14th anthology, Water , Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime talk in which Jeroen Bodewits will discuss Waterpleinen , a project designed by Florian Boer and Marco Vermeulen...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
( MEtreePOLIS , by HWKN and which appears in Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead? , envisions a future, genetically modified Atlanta, Georgia. Watch Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner give a tour of their “fantasticity” here .) Coinciding with the next issue (#18) of Kerb , the annual landscape architecture journal edited by students at RMIT, Melbourne, is their first ever international...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Classical Chinese Garden in Portland, OR, is a 21st-century ancient garden. It opened in September, 2000, and it's destined to be (if not already) one of the most popular garden destinations in the country. Built on the site of an old parking lot, it's patterned after classical Ming Dynasty...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Pumpkin Patch™ Rose Could there be any rose as perfect for Halloween? This is a new one from Weeks Roses, described as the color of pumpkin pie, on the caramel side. It's a floribunda, medium-sized, round and bushy, with a moderately fruity fragrance. Hybridized by Bedard, it's said to like...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Lawrence Halprin, one of the 20th century's prominent landscape architects, has died at the age of 93 in San Francisco. Among Halprin's most famous works are the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC; Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco; Freeway Park in Seattle, Sea Ranch in northern California and, pictured...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Through Nov 15 Kiku in the Japanese American Garden, Bronx, NY Final Kiku show at the NY Botanical Garden. Lectures, Demos, More 718-817-8616 Nov 1 Garden Tours, Mt Kisco NY 10AM-4PM Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours Nov 2, Design: Urban Landscapes, NYC 6PM-7PM, Lecture, landscape architect Walter Hood, Scandinavia House,...
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