Category Archives: environment

Mar12012
Solar Panel Sense

I have been struggling with the visual impact that alternative energy sources have on the landscape.  I’m conflicted.  I know we need to seriously decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, but often the windmill and solar farms that are increasingly … Read more

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  1. Mid-Winter Garden Design Project
  2. Tuesday’s Find…an iron planter
  3. Print and Pattern Choices: Mansion in May
LABELS: environment, Gardens, green, solar power, sustainability 3 Comments

Aug232011
Tuesday’s Find…lawn chairs

Today my garden designer/blogger peers over at Garden Designers Roundtable along with the Lawn Reform Coalition will be discussing lawn alternatives.  Lawns are a hot button topic with many on both sides of the garden fence, so I thought I’d … Read more

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  1. Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration
  2. Garden Designers’ Roundtable: Details make the Design
  3. Garden Designer’s Roundtable | How Did I Get Here?
LABELS: Art, environment, Gardens, student work, sustainability 2 Comments

Aug72010
In my Reader…Recycle UK

Every now and again someone will email me and ask me to post something on my blog. I never have…before today. I’m usually fiercely independent and don’t want to have to return the favor.  This was originally sent to me … Read more

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  1. Inspiration and Influence: Craftsman Farms
  2. 2010 Top 5 Posts–Yours!
LABELS: environment, Garden Styles, green, recycling Leave a comment

Nov52009
Inspiration and Influence: Craftsman Farms

As the brilliant fall foliage fades, I find myself thinking more and more about larger themes in the natural world and how they directly inform my own landscape design work.  Response to concerns about the health of our planet and … Read more

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  1. Mid-Winter Garden Design Project
  2. In my Reader…Dirt Simple
  3. Garden A Go-Go
LABELS: environment, inspiration, Landscape Design, New Jersey, sustainability 6 Comments

Oct262009
Shift in Perception

I had occasion this past weekend to visit the center of the country–no not New York or Los Angeles, but Iowa.  Being a hardcore, jaded metropolitan New York area resident, I had preconceived ideas of what I would see and … Read more

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  1. Random or Not? Garden Inspiration
  2. Garden Color Inspiration: Navy Blue
  3. A Garden is a Lovesome thing…
LABELS: Creative Process, environment, inspiration, Travel 7 Comments

Aug182009
Portland | Distilled

New and unknown destinations of all kinds always fuel my creative process, but I need time to put all of what I experience in perspective. When something is new it swirls around in my head and is exciting–like a new … Read more

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  1. A Tale of Two Fences…
  2. Field Trip: Leonard J. Buck Garden
  3. The New Luxury
LABELS: environment, garden visits, inspiration, Landscape Design, Travel 8 Comments

Jul282009
The New Luxury

A few words stenciled on a shop window got me thinking about this…the very last lure after organic spa treatments were the enticing words  ‘eco-luxury‘.  I would think that eco-luxury would be one ‘green’ term that garden and landscape designers … Read more

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  1. Thinking Forward
  2. Garden Design Details: Rustic Wood Gates
  3. Bardessono’s Compelling Courtyards
LABELS: Creative Process, environment, Garden Design, Landscape Design, sustainability 14 Comments

Jun202009
Inspiration and Influence: Hayao Miyazaki

For some it was reading Cradle to Cradle, for others it was seeing Al Gore’s charts and hearing the eloquence of his environmental message in an Inconvenient Truth.  Others still, can trace their actions to reading Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring … Read more

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  1. Neutrality, Part 1
  2. Garden Color Inspiration: Navy Blue
  3. Portland | Distilled
LABELS: Creative Process, environment, Film, inspiration, Japan 2 Comments