February 2012
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Sex and the single plant
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Spring is a a time of love …and pollination. As I stifle a sneeze, I remember that we are back in fruit tree season. As I reach for that hanky, I am pondering the process of pollination and cogitating on it’s complexity. The fact is, that edible tree, berry or bush that you are specifying may provide nary a fruit without the proper-cross pollinator. And so we break out the charts,...
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SwanSong →
lauramortondesign:
Agave attenuata is as ubiquitous a plant in Los Angeles as sunshine. Older clumps provide textural swathes of soft pale greyish green that require no additional applied water…they are so effortless a plant one can forget about them until they bloom and then look up! While driving around town the…
Paths, Walls and Edges
I must thank Susan Cohan for reinventing Designers on Design and bringing more APLD members on board to write. I look forward to working in Tumblr. I had some difficulty posting the photos that accompany this entry so the photos may appear as separate posts. They show four of my projects that relate to this topic. I have started to look at my projects for the spring and to choose materials. ...
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prideauxdesignapld:
Welcome to my newest adventure - blogging!
As a fan of various design blogs, I was thrilled to be asked to join the APLD Designers on Design group. I finally have a forum for all of my various thoughts (including lots of images) on the world of design - watch out!
My name is Kathryn Prideaux. My company’s home base is in Tucson, Arizona (be prepared for some jealously...
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Welcome to the New Designers on Design
I’m the hostess here and I’d like to welcome all who are interested in landscape design to hang out and see what we have to say. Designers on Design, now in its 3rd year, is the cumulative product of 15 landscape designers who are all members of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
Each designer is invited because they have a unique point of view and each...
