tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11404229213397087302024-03-13T13:20:55.537-07:00LandFieldSkyAn inquiry into gardens, nature, culture, and the human condition.Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-21502056475555986532013-01-15T14:05:00.002-08:002013-01-15T14:05:31.125-08:002013 Winter Symposium at Atlanta Botanical Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span">Next month, get some inspiration at the Atlanta Botanical Garden's and Georgia Perennial Plant Association's winter symposium. The (mostly) chilly winter months are the best for planning and raking in new ideas before the garden starts running out ahead of us with its spring dash. The </span><a href="http://www.georgiaperennial.org/events/2013/2013_brochure.pdf">Symposium Brochure</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> details this year's speakers and programming--a rich list of designers, horticulturalists, and photographers. Check it out!</span></div>
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<br />Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-63031379490040537722013-01-01T09:34:00.001-08:002013-01-01T09:38:05.814-08:00Hush...It's 2013<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It’s a drippy New Year’s Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started with the softest of drizzles and opened into an earnest rainfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this morning, out in
the wide world, we are a people careening off a fiscal cliff or spawning
innovative plans for managing climate change, population density, and the
capricious world markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
this rainy morning, you are a person pounding the Gatorade in need of detox, furrowing your brow to lists of goals about sleep, diet, money, time management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me, this morning, I’m myself in my cozy cottage,
grateful for the rain that cloaks my epic planning and ruefulness with a quiet
hush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's somehow enough to have a
warm cup of coffee, my fluffy dog, and good music filling up my space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rich little space I gladly inhabit this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have Fatsia flowers in a jug from my garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Fatsia have been in the ground a full three years now;
this December they presented chunky white ornaments of bloom in time for the
holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flowers I cut are
pretty spent, and the miniscule petals litter the countertop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t wiped them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And I can look outside and see how my
Rodhea japonica ‘Picadilly Farm’ finally has some new growth, its variegated
straps creating a flute for the drops of rain to spill down into the
crown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that the Edgeworthia
will fill up January with its subtle fragrance and stark branches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a hardy Cyclamen hederifolium
‘Album’, whose silver leaves and soft pink flower caps emerged this fall without my even remembering it was there.</div>
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penance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today in my garden, the
shredded banana tree leaves can stay put, hanging heavy under fat drops of
rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not gonna cut them
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither am I rushing to cover
the exposed roots on my Hedichyium greenii, which will be hit hard in the next
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So here it is, high autumn, and the beech leaves are glowing in the 4'oclock light. Cold humidity stirs up the smell of leaf mold. It quiets me. The crunch under my boots and the sound of squirrels pouncing also creates a hush. Maybe during this contemplative time there is something we're supposed to be hearing in the whispers of a maple leaf floating to meet its companions on the ground. </div>
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My scientific side would say, "Bollocks! Nature isn't here to say something directly to us." My need to hear something is just another example of narcissistic anthropomorphizing. Still, I'm urged toward quietude, sensing there is in fact a message available when I pay attention. (Besides, I don't say the word "bullocks" so my scientific side clearly isn't winning).</div>
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As humans we are nothing if not meaning-finders. We derive meaning from the spaces around us. Beauty calls to us, appealing to the better angels of our nature. In a beautiful space, we are elevated from a mean scrappy existence. The space itself communicates something hopeful and motivates. And holding this truth alongside a respect for Nature's remote processes may be the most important thing I need to understand in seeking to design gardens. Design matters, beauty calls and we respond. The spaces around us reach into our cerebral isolation and pull us out into a global community. <br />
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In each designed space, we're challenged to find the delicate balance between artifice and nature. And in each space, this balance rests a little differently on that continuum. Maybe it's at this time of year, when the natural processes of decay and dormancy are so obvious that I become a little more aware of that culture/nature tension. Strong gestures and architectural bones in the garden are only frames for what is happening in the cool dark autumn. No matter what ideas I have for the exuberant spring, they seem remote as I watch and listen to the garden preparing for its winter rest.<br />
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Autumn argues for a stronger nod to natural elements in the garden. Without seasonal reference, such spaces feel hollow at this time of year. I don't want to be in a garden so full of broad leafed evergreens that there is no response to the season's calling (I also NEVER want to see an Encore azalea in bloom in November--but that's just me!).<br />
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Perhaps the most seductive aspect of designing gardens is that the medium (plants) and environment (climate, architecture, time) place strong parameters on the designer to create something authentic within those bounds. Never is this more true than in the late Autumn garden, as we can't ignore the raining of leaves and sinking of the sun. So I guess I will listen, before the loud demands of the holiday bustle crowd out the message.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fall is so pretty. Abundance calls to us, and we respond--even if it's to head out to a pumpkin patch with a small hand in our own, off to collect a prized fruit for hobgoblining. We are not different from generations before us. Maybe we don't identify this calling in the same way as those for whom harvest was really about a flurry of preparation for a cold winter. Still, we respond. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent last weekend working on and enjoying a beautiful wedding at David's beautiful farm. Abundant it was. Abundance of love, of community, of beauty, of laughter. Abundance of warm light. Abundance of gratitude. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This warm light translates to abundance in a more categorical way. Michael Pollan heartbreakingly delineates sunshine's bountiful yield in the natural order <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(please bear with the long quotation): </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Entropy is the great faith of our time. Those who are most awed by it preach “limits to growth” — that we should consume our fixed, unreplenishable stores as slowly as possible…. <b><i>But the second law of thermodynamics, under which entropy increases as matter converts to energy, applies only to closed systems, and… the global ecosystem is not a closed system…. new energy is continually pouring down on it, in the form of sunlight — free, boundless, virtually infinite sunlight. And sunlight come down to Earth is used by the process of photosynthesis to create new plant matter. Plants, in other words, are energy returned to matter, entropy undone, at least here on Earth</i>.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lesson in this is not that we should feel free to waste our resources; it’s that our environmental problems may have more to do with our technologies and habits and economic arrangements than with the planet’s inherent limits or the burden of our numbers. <b><i>All we could ever possibly need is given.</i></b> In terms of the global ecosystem, there is a free lunch and its name is photosynthesis. In a sense, the ancients were entirely correct to regard the harvest’s abundance as a gift from the heavens….</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…<b><i>this strikes me as the harvest’s most salutary teaching — indeed, as reason enough to garden. Here in my garden the second law of thermodynamics is repealed. Here there is more every year, not less. Here it is ever early, never late. Here… newness comes into the world (145)."</i></b> --Michael Pollan,<i> Second Nature</i></span></div>
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Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-26482723308002107702012-10-16T18:21:00.000-07:002012-10-18T03:22:11.469-07:00Don't miss it....Cooper Sanchez at "The Gate Called Beautiful"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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Georgia-boy artist and meadow-maker Cooper Sanchez has an easy knack for making what's old seem new and what's fresh seem relic. His style? Something of an unselfconscious interpretation of classical aesthetics and refined nature themes, with a visceral take on nostalgic Southern folk art. His work shows an obvious reverance for creatures other than the human kind and a sense of humor towards the human kind. Cooper's mixed media work is playful and elemental and seems a reflection of someone creatively navigating the modern South.<br />
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He's a thoughtful and talented gardener in all that free time and has wowed Atlanta's gardenati with his evocative meadow plantings at his Clarkston home and historic Oakland Cemetery. There he's sown old-fashioned reseeding annuals, redolent of vintage meadows, making something fresh by literally rooting into a Southern folk ethic. Click <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=cooper%20sanchez%20oakland&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCEQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0JzVrWPNvW4&ei=XAR-UP7kCZGk8ASj6YCQCA&usg=AFQjCNEwP83EFw72z-vRfGLPRjv_h2dZsQ&sig2=JVCP3mm4Kdc3BVjsdoFZRA">here for a video</a> from Cooper's dramatic plein air installation in Oakland Cemetery's greenhouse ruins.<br />
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Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-44689529518066068402012-10-12T06:40:00.002-07:002012-10-12T16:07:43.545-07:00Um...so...maybe not...<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In moment of atypical candidness, I'd like to describe a bit of an experiment I've just undertaken--a less-than-successful solution to get from here to there ("there" being the magic bullet to assuage my dismay with an ugly spot in my garden). And why, ultimately, it hasn't been that successful.</div>
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The reason my candidness is rare is because from a design perspective, my personal garden is more or less a non-garden. I'm hesitant to show it off, as it's really a collection of plants rather than a garden. I rent a carriage-house behind another house, and I do love it. It's quiet, the price is right, my neighbors are great, I can clean the whole house inside from top to bottom in about two hours etc, etc. The other reason it works is because the problems with this VERY imperfect house are not utimately my problems, so I can turn my head at things I would feel a strong need to resolve were the space my own. The fact that it stands completely akimbo, has less-than-stellar plumbing, and really schlocky craftsmanship are not for me to pour money and time into rectifying. </div>
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This translates to the outside too. It's wonderful to have a quiet spot to garden and my neighbors seem thrilled to let me. Still, I am approaching a threshold of what I can tolerate visually. Three houses share a steep busted concrete driveway that is a bit of a rabbit's warren: a parking lot, a view of garbage cans, barely held together by dilapidated railroad ties (this is a nice neighborhood, by the way). It's just that the space wasn't that well-conceived when constructed: it was an effort to build houses in a fairly urban setting on a steep ravine. My neighbors have asked me about an approach to resolving their steep backyard, which isn't very usable from their charming house. When the houses were constructed, there wasn't much thought given to future projects or use of the outside.</div>
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When I first came here three years ago, I was working all the time and didn't do that much other than plant some containers that related in no way to this space--I just had to plant something. That year I worked to eradicate the enormous drifts of ivy choking the space and removed some really sad-looking azaleas. I had to be careful about what I did, as my new neighbors didn't necessarily want me monkeying with what had been there long before me. There were odd ligustrum topiary and the saddest looking boxwoods knocking on death's door. It's deeply shaded and incredibly dry in some spots, gets blasted with 4 pm sun in others, and all around the carriage house was initially sludge that was added for fill to build the little cottage (though down the slope the soil is like gold). </div>
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So how it all evolved is how many plant-lovers' gardens evolve. I just couldn't help myself. I had to buy that variegated Fatsia. And that Yucca linearifolia. And that Beschornaria septronalis. And that Rosa 'Climbing Pinkie'--such a collection does not a garden make. </div>
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So I've done more and more to make a bit of a garden--always understanding that it's gardening, not really designing--simply because I love plants and I have to garden. I love the act of it and my hands in the cool dirt; I want to be experimenting and learning about plants in a way that's different from learning in someone else's space. For me, it's data collection and continuing ed, professionally, and personally, it's a tonic and an expression of creativity. I like to work quietly and intuitively, cutting back and transplanting in a way that is rarely feasible in a client's garden. I've been content with appreciating the texture of the ferns next to the Heuchera and have refrained from looking at the space as a whole.</div>
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So my experiment was this: I have a little concrete path from the crazy driveway to my door, and it's lined by a narrow bed that is at the edge of a railroad-tie retaining wall that supports my neighbor's parking pad. This was the worst of the soil when I moved in, and I'm pleased at how it's character has changed with the addition of organic matter (e.g., worm castings), letting leaf mold do it's thing to add microbial life, and growing tough herbaceous plants that themselves have added life to the soil.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Let's be honest: this is an inherently ugly bed. It's a frame for a parking lot of at at least 6 vehicles and a barely effective solution for dealing with a steep slope. It's not level and is honestly kind of hard to understand. There were concrete pots on top that I have filled with succulents because I love them and they live there, even all year while I was in California. Most of the plants I'd just thrown in there when I first pulled out the azaleas: Yucca recurvifolia, Iris tectorum, Carex 'Frostly Curls', Hellebores, Euphorbia, Opuntia 'Morning Star'...a disparate collection. </span>I finally decided I wanted that bed to look like something that is worthy of an entry--that I am pleased at seeing as I walk in the door, and that I'm not worried someone will see and resolve NEVER to hire me to design anything. <span class="Apple-style-span"> It had started to look just enough like something with the success of the C. 'Frosty Curls' and Iris t. that I got excited and decided to make more of an effort. The yucca had gotten too big, and I needed to move it anyway.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So I planted my new combo, and I'm a little disappointed. The truth is, a good planting can't resolve an inherently defunct space. I've planted Muhlenbeckia capillaris (creeping wire vine) directly in the rotting wood at the top to cascade down and meet the Aspidistra. It's still kind of ugly. I can't hide the concrete and crooked roof. I've reinforced what I know--you've got to get the space right before throwing in some pretty plants.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as the temperature has dropped and freshness has returned to the early fall air, so has my constant thought about gardens. In a sense, this is a sort of homecoming--when summer is meting out her late-August brutality, parching the already parched earth, I feel somewhat in exile. Not that my mind isn't turned toward the tall perennials in need of staking, the constant hope for rain, the itchy malaise as I perfunctorily think that I need to start gearing up for fall. No, I'm thinking about it, but until there is that certain bend in the light and a break in the nighttime heat, it's just hard to get there with it. I feel "other."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I got to thinking about homecomings and see that such urges--to look backward and connect with a sense of place and earlier time--are pulling from all around. All of a sudden, my summer garden, which I've neglected all of August and much of September is calling to me as well. I feel welcomed home from my sweaty, itchy summer exile. I've been cutting back roses, pulling back fallen leaves from emerging Cyclamen, shaming myself for letting ornamental black peppers smother my lovely Callirhoe, assessing whether Muhly grass was really a good idea (if it doesn't look good now--it's never gonna)! I'm transplanting boxwoods and moving Euphorbia seedlings.</span></div>
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other day, on a flight home from Boston I was ogling a lovely 1830s
cottage makeover in a recent issue of <a href="http://www.countryliving.com/"><span style="color: #0026e2;">Country Living</span></a>. And by ogling, I mean coveting
the homeowners' ingenuity in recreating that distinct space. Though
touted as simple--and indeed, in the material restraint it was--the collection
of well curated objects d'art casually strewn about a reclaimed seamstress table
and backed by glossy black walls is the product of no shortage of effort and
care. It wasn't just the appeal of the comfortable space that
captivated me, rather it's the creative process that yielded this well-loved
home that really got me salivating. My trip to Boston--a good
excuse to catch up with dear friends, was a project weekend. My friend
Matt, a recent transplant from Emory to Boston Medical, has an
outdoor patio in his newly acquired South End apartment. After living in
a modern Atlanta loft, with no outdoor space to nurse a potted plant or sit
with a drink, he was pretty ecstatic over his tabula rasa--a triangular brick
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came up for the weekend and we had two days to style and plant. Anyone
who does garden design and install knows that sourcing the right materials can
be the toughest part of the job, especially when you don't really have any time
to gradually hunt for just the right piece. Pair that with the fact that I had
never been to Boston, and Matt just moved there 6 weeks ago. I'm
used to having a strong sense of where I can go to find my bread-and-butter
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simplify a project with the right tools on hand. None of these were in
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as Boston, and knowing that they won't enjoy the same protracted mild fall
as Atlanta, I was a bit hesitant with my plant selections , especially given
that our planted space would be limited to above-ground containers subject to
deep freeze. I did have a good sense of what would sustain those
conditions (I also consulted a friend who is a designer in Chicago, and he
proffered much fair warning on what to expect from container plantings during
freeze and thaw cycles). Fortunately, the patio space is incredibly protected,
surrounded by building and brick all around, and my sense is that it's not in
an incredibly low spot vulnerable to cool wet pockets of air--let's hope I'm
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effort at rounding up what we'd need to make the space new (Mahoney's in Brighton
was a great find, and we located some gorgeous conifers at Russel's Garden
Center west of town). I was also trying to stretch a dollar, and feel like we were
successful in that effort. We went to a brilliant architectural salvage
shop, made all the more promising by the hordes of renovations on Victorian
buildings in the area. Here, we identified some unique pieces that could
be added to bring the space more character. They were closed on Sunday, so
the salvaged windows and grate we want to use for screening are yet to be
added. Nor could we hit any wholesale design centers, as we only had
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etc. we manged to transform the space. Sourcing snafus and traffic had
put us on a tight schedule, so Sunday night, in the cool September air, several
of our friends reunited under dreamy globe lights and newly hung candle
lanterns With Thai takeout, red wine, and bags of soil, mulch, sand
and stone we chatted and laughed, me with my hands in the dirt and on a
watering can. I planted alongside dear friends under festive lights and
we worked together to create something new. The madcap scavenger hunt made to outfit the space is just as much a part of it as the Microbiata
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On our recent England excursion, David and I visited Wembley Castle in West Sussex, the former resident of the Queen Mother. There is a charming garden within its walls designed for her Majesty Elizabeth by Penelope Hobhouse. There are Buxus microphylla hedges in the shape of mirrored "Es" honoring the namesake of her majesty, along with a row of pink flowering Hawthornes. Apparently, the Queen Mother was fond of soft cool blues, lavenders, silvers and pinks and provided significant input into the planting palette. This was a treat to see, especially as David had spoken with Penelope Hobhouse about the design of the garden when she was working on it. It was a beautiful afternoon, with inspiring views out to the sea. </div>
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Massive undulating yew hedges distinguish the long borders in the main part of the garden. These borders were under renovation as we visited, so the planting was less than remarkable, but the monumental hedges were worth the entire trip. These monoliths have been pruned in irregular undulations. I'm not sure how this pattern emerged, although they perfectly suit the stocky form of the castle. It's possible too that these hedges took shape as a point of necessity, in the case of irregular pockets of die-back that resulted in such eccentric configurations. I don't think so, though. To my eye, they read as the perfect sculptural companions to this specific site. </div>
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When dealing with form and scale in the design of a landscape, we can be hindered by our sense of form and scale in interior spaces. Inside four walls we don't have to design alongside grand borrowed views, large trees, and weighty architecture. The circumference of the largest interior column is often a small fraction of an exterior one. Sky and trees and sea and vista are the walls, ceilings, floors and architecture that the landscape is furnishing. I'm inspired by these hefty hedges, which not only push back with visual force on the castle, the large acreage, the sky and sea, but also provide resonance for this historic and important cultural sight. The host of plantings, fountains, and follies in this garden would be wanting without these arresting forms.</div>
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<br />Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-64523672556896085832012-05-22T09:46:00.001-07:002012-05-29T08:24:52.173-07:00Elm Street Gardens: Sparta, GA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQEZ8zBH_GO-tfVgQh_mK9ebAQOiMx17fZndy2vvah0IMOwzDORitPrDqUF63QgkfOUeiEhzkQH9saDsWwhD50NthCRB_KEHqTlCDuipatmgDaePIDB9f42ELd_iMBtRfTn0Yy2XePuU/s1600/ElmStreetBlog05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQEZ8zBH_GO-tfVgQh_mK9ebAQOiMx17fZndy2vvah0IMOwzDORitPrDqUF63QgkfOUeiEhzkQH9saDsWwhD50NthCRB_KEHqTlCDuipatmgDaePIDB9f42ELd_iMBtRfTn0Yy2XePuU/s640/ElmStreetBlog05.jpg" width="640" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I had a memorable visit to Elm Street Gardens in Sparta, GA. This was my second trip there--this time under the blaze of the hot sun and the sweet scent of ripe strawberries. It's ridiculously idyllic, yet avoids being too precious. Sparta is a quiet town, where even in the cold January the soft echo of cicadas buzzing during summer's dog days still reverberates. In some ways Sparta seems like the isolated remains of antebellum forebears. The planters abandoned when Sherman blazed his way to the sea, forsaking grand mansions and leaving an anemic economy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a little back story as I know it: Elm Street Gardens (ESG) is the dreamy offspring of Robert & Suzy Currey (of <a href="http://www.curreycodealers.com/index.aspx">Currey and Company</a>, purveyors of distinctive lighting and historic garden furniture). They've bestowed their expansive vision, industriousness, and good sense on this endeavor; the outcome is frankly a sight to behold. About a decade ago, I believe, they begun to revive an 1840s antebellum (it's been renovated and curated with such grace and restraint that the effect is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">equal parts antique and modern).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gargantuan boxwoods flank the ornamental garden surrounding the house, bringing an air of permanence and substance to the simple and elegant grounds. The estate garden acts as a well-behaved bridesmaid, never upstaging or distracting from the bride--in this case the dignified home with generous staicases and broad proportions. These prominent staircases seem to announce a stately welcome; though impressive in scale, the stairs urge an approach toward the inviting porches.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it's in this genteel context that their organic farming venture was born. ESG materialized with much intention and vision, if not much experience in commercial farming. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Curreys have cut no corners; this garden is done to the 9s. It is the most perfect food-producing garden I have seen--especially in that it's actually yielding abudantly. The Curreys, alongside managers Brad and Megan Fowler </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(also owners of <a href="http://threecenturiesfarm.wordpress.com/our-story/">Three Centuries Farm</a>, a forage-based livestock venture) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">work hard and happily, conscienciously and discerningly </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(with sweet newborn Emiline Fowler in tow!). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It's interesting how attention to technique and efficiency in this edible garden has yielded such a beautiful result. Perhaps it's in our DNA to perceive a fecund landscape as beautiful--moving in fact. Certainly there is something Romantic about this return to the earth way out in the sticks. ESG's methods move far beyond nostalgic ideals, though: they are modern and innovative in their execution and interest in progressive techniques. In this case, design was directed towards practical demands in this humid food producing space. I'm sure it's ever-evolving as they get feedback about what works. With all the industry and pragmantics, this design still translates to a purely visual language. I feel fortunate to be watching them grow.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are selling at various markets in the region (e.g., Milledgeville, Athens, GA Organics events) and working assiduously to create a market and community for local organic food in a region where limited access and funding have hampered awareness in the slow food movement. The Curreys have embraced a difficult calling, with a heart toward bringing fresh produce to communities without affordable access to authenticly produced food.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an aside: their next venture is a fungi production farm in the abandoned Victorian factory across the street, which they have acquired through the Georgia Trust. Another boon among this rural enclave of innovative farmers. They are also completing build-out on dormitories to house young itinerate farmers.</span><br />
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The more I garden the more I realize these dilemmas rarely carry simple solutions. Acquiring a better understanding of soil communities and microbial life means I can't be cavalier with my impact on the soil. Sure, I can get relatively immediate results with a systemic fungicide, but I know I will be destroying salutary fungal mycorrhizae in the soil. A pschychiatrist can calm agitation with a heavy barbituate, but is that drug with it's accompanying side-effects the long-term solution for the patient in question? The more I think about relatively small gardening decisions, the more I read them as a script for being a human--that is, one who <i>by nature</i> is capable of changing, building, destroying my surroundings, is crippled and empowered by a million small decision points in the course of a single day, and who must cultivate a human life within the larger context of nature. What is a garden other than this intersection between nature and culture?<br />
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So as a gardener, especially one who wants to design using plants (i.e., has ideas and expectations of how plants are going to "work" and behave in relation to each other and their surrounding elements) I am keenly aware of a desire to orchestrate changes--to engineer developments-- that impact my surroundings. Today, however, I am thinking more about how the garden, and Nature's hand in it, effects changes on me, and not just aesthetically either. My success and satisfaction in gardening (and life!) are proportional to my willingness to observe and adapt to dynamic feedback. If I can't do this, I'll be one hell of a miserable gardener.<br />
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As often as I look around when gardening is as often as I learn something new. Sometimes it's something altogether new (e.g., Blueberries are Ericaceous) and sometimes it's something I needed to learn yet again (e.g., make sure to mark where the Podophyllum are before they go dormant this year). But what I really get to learn when gardening is more about who I am in relation to my environment (stubborn? grateful? impatient?). I learn about my urges, yearnings, instincts (how do I react when slugs wreak havoc on my rose?). I learn to be ever surprised and to value the unexpected (the location of those self-sown Bulbines is better than where I placed them originally), to coax growth instead of choking it to death, to be empathic, to problem-solve.<br />
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I learn to recognize my own shortsightedness, to accept change, my personal limitations, and entropy--even death--as part of the beauty of a garden. I attempt to let go of what I want to force to be the case and be honest about what actually is the case (e.g., Delpiniums aren't ever really going to grow here in any satisfactory way). It's with some of these small lessons in mind that I welcomed the softest of rains on Friday morning...grateful for the bit that was.<br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lily-of-the-Valley is one of those romantic plants that uniformly evokes, "Oooh! Lily-of-the-Valley...I love Lily-of-the-Valley...I remember it from when I was a child!" Which is why my mother has had it planted in her beds since 1991, redolent of her native Norway. Perplexingly, it never once flowered. Last summer I was renovating the plantings and decided to give it one more chance. The Kentucky soil has a basic pH already, but I moved it near the foundation on a small hunch-back slope and along the concrete driveway to ensure a higher number. The nearby Hydrangea m. always tend toward pink. I've seen it successfully blanketing slopes with a "hills-are-alive" charm--even in more acidic Georgia (don't go get your hopes up, Atlantans!)--so this seemed like a good idea. Now they're flowering less than a year later--an elegant symbol of rebirth on my Easter visit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me, it's not just that my work means that the pace of spring tends to knock me over with emails and meetings. Rather, it's something about all these rapid changes: the lengthening of days, the cacophony of birds, buds unfolding into spent flowers as if filmed with a strobe light. It rouses in me a wish to take it all in, to notice everything, and to try to keep up--perhaps this is my effort at not getting left behind from spring's promise. Winter's long anticipation, with it's ennervated succession of days and protracted changes in the landscape--long nights, long hours feeling a bit cooped up, long musings about plans for warmer days--always leaves me ill-prepared for the arresting pace of springtime change. I want to cry out at the forsythia as it discards its yellow robe when the temperature creeps toward 80, "Wait, I'm not ready yet!" as though I could absorb every change with singular attention and fully grasp the progression of time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still Nature with her springtime verve marches on indifferently. We look around us and read the tulips dancing as human tropes: girls dressed up for their spring debut, daffodils smiling sympathetically at our own March giddiness; Spiraea bearing white wands as generous ornaments for our human celebrations. Birdsong we hear as happy chatter instead of territorial mating cries. So we gear up, responding to the tune of warm temperatures and garish azalea trumpets. Yet Nature plows forward, carrying weeds and mosquitoes and hinting at the dog days of summer--reminding us that she waits for no one, human or otherwise. Despite our half-met plans and aspirations this very indifference is a grace, placing us right-sized into the natural order. </span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">You do not have to walk on your knees</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">You only have to let the soft animal of your body</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile the world goes on.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">are moving across the landscapes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">over the prairies and the deep trees,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">the mountains and the rivers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">the world offers itself to your imagination,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div>Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-38306285774585364942012-03-02T06:35:00.001-08:002012-03-02T21:28:52.846-08:00Irresistable weather and a trip to Strybing ArboretumThe weather in San Francisco has been remarkable...warm and sunny, no clouds, no fog---simply breathtaking. I couldn't resist heading over to Golden Gate Park's Strybing Arboretum to see how the collections were showing off...I wasn't disappointed! This is just a small sampling of the luscious bloomers there--the Michelias were mind boggling, fragrant towers of flowers...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Berberis darwinii--This is giving me some garden lust!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ribes sangineana--A mighty delicate-looking flower for a tough CA native!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hard to ignore the lavish Helleborus argutifolias</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Telanthofora grandifolia--and grandifolious it is!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I love Symphytum (comfrey)--a great groundcover to include in permaculture practices <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rhododendron hybrid 'John Mclaren'</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelia--breathtaking!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What the?! Yellow flowered Rhodo--someone please ID for me...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Aloe arborescens also giving quite a show...</span></td></tr>
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like all the Manzanitas.</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It seems to me that the field of landscape architecture and design is starting to inhabit the appropriate place in the making and remodeling of the built environment. How exciting! Maybe it's an upshot of an ever-growing environmental conscience, a recognition that the built environment is intrinsically linked to the landscape, and a desire to be reconnected with the natural environment, even (or especially in) highly urban settings. Likely, also to a desire for genuine experience in the broader sense. The widespread attention of large public landscapes outside of the horticultural world (e.g., The High Line, The Lurie Garden) has likely precipitated a lot of this movement. Of note, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">lauded Designer Piet Oudulf is a plantsman, not an LA.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Almost weekly I'm reading about a project in which the built space came about through a collaborative effort in which the unique perspectives of each member of the design team could be fully utilized. Instead of bringing on one after the other in isolation and therefore to some extent in opposition, the landscape design team was consulted at least as early as the architect, helping site the best spot in the available space, helping contour the grade to best utilize the natural elements, to optimize energy, provide appropriate screening, etc. For a nice overview, see </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Charles Birnbaum’s piece in the</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-a-birnbaum/landscape-architecture-2011_b_1163303.html">Huffington Post</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">on a recent “Top 10” from the field of Landscape Architecture. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">By my lights, such a turn has been a long time coming; this will ring especially true if you’ve passed by an impressive new or renovated building and find little to no thought was given by architect or builder (or sometimes landscape architect) to the relation of building to exterior space. (By saying “little to no thought was given,” I’m intending to be generous, as I would hope that conscious thought didn’t yield the dismal results that are much more the rule than the exception in the surrounding landscapes). This has been especially apparently in recent years, as 2008's market crash curtailed many development and renovation projects. Big efforts have been more notable.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Atlanta, for instance, is starting to amass a population of contemporary residential, corporate, and public architecture. This is exciting and especially tricky, given the nostalgia woven into the architecture of a place like Atlanta. It takes a subtle hand to make it work, and there are a mounting number of good examples about town. It’s disappointing, however, to find that many such innovations are fronted by the same old tired landscapes. It’s not enough to modify these static, formulaic designs with a few “natives” getting scorched in the sun, then call it “modern” or “native.” Using Equisetum or Fothergilla does not a contemporary nor native space make. Often, these landscapes, which may only differ from their suburban counterparts by being a bit starker or simpler, are in no way modern nor reimagined.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Any design/build project, contemporary or otherwise, requires a thoughtful approach to space and scale with a command over available materials, a sense of design within three-dimensional space—not merely in a CAD drawing—and a sensible approach to how it will be inhabited and sustained. When such aspects are carefully considered, I believe a greener approach comes naturally—not with buzz words or by meeting municipal quotas for natives in a callous planting design. So it seems especially important that as the building and development world become more open to bringing landscape design and architecture on board, that the field of landscape architecture and design be up to the challenge. It’s not enough to only know about grade and code (though these are essential!). A designer must be willing to step back from ego and design tricks, and step into the space, becoming part of it, before picking up the academic toolbox. This isn’t easy an easy feat to achieve, especially when the intangible skills are hard to monetize. I know I have some work to do!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Yet these skills are the key substance behind these collaborative efforts. The landscape design team should bring an understanding of exterior space and scale and the relation of nature and artifice to the conversation in a way that tethers the built environment to its surroundings and generates context. Contemporary thinking and materials translate in the landscape and in a garden differently from inside, and it’s not enough to plant some bamboo in zinc planters and call it contemporary. Good design on the outside is always the result of a careful conversation between natural elements and the constructed universe. So on these exciting collaborative projects, landscape architects and designers role is to translate and interpret this conversation as the concept is burgeoning—not after the architect and builder have set a template. The more decorative and signature elements of the design—often the most memorable and most notable—aren’t then placed as an accessory or disjointed overlay onto the structural, spatial, and functional elements of a designed space; instead, they are conceived along with them, and therefore the design, of building exterior, interior, and garden space are better integrated, better edited, and more graceful.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Take, for example Andrea Cochran’s description of the <a href="http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/dirt/24299/andrea-cochran-it-s-hard-sell-nothing">subtle process</a> in the <a href="http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/">Sustainable Cities Collective blog</a> and ASLA's <a href="http://dirt.asla.org/?s=andrea+cochran">The Dirt</a>, wherein she describes the best LA's work as the part that's often hard to discern.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.acochran.com/">Andrea Cochran</a>, widely-acclaimed Landscape Architect, is one of the few in her field who often is retained in the process before the architect. It’s perhaps her excellence at editing and reading a space before a design ever emerges that has motivated patrons to enlist her expertise so early in the process. Consequently, the building and the landscape blend seamlessly into their surroundings, and the landscape isn’t at odds with or detracting from the building. I am inspired by this process and hope the field continues to move in this direction.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Helleborus blooms, fragrant Daphne odora, and Leucojum flowers.</td></tr>
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Along with shorts and tank tops jogging along Freedom Parkway, I've seen cherry trees and Chinese Magnolias budding and blooming. The fresh new blades of ornamental grasses are tangling with last year's brown stalks. I've been keenly aware of a strange humidity in the atmosphere, feisty songbirds acting like they're engaged in springtime nesting, a mosquito bite on my ankle (enough to put the fear of God in me in anticipation of an itchy summer). Hospitable plants are opening their buds for eager pollinators to leave their calling cards.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue' starting to peek out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sedums (tectractinum, here, makinoi 'Ogon' below) starting to flush</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a bloom on my aloe, which is still alive in Feb</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Succulents still looking sharp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chaenolmeles in flower behind agaves at New Moon Gardens farm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus foetidus seedlings in spades</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris unguincularis at NMG farm that has bloomed all winter</td></tr>
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</div>Many of you know by now that the USDA has released their updated <a href="http://www.planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/">2012 zone hardiness map</a>. I have been dragging my feet on posting about it, and several others already have done a good job in summarizing the updates. It's interactive, allowing curious users to click on specific areas and enter zip codes for a highly specific zone i.d. Drawing from the last 30 years of climate trends, the USDA redistricted the zones and returned to dividing them into subzones of "a" and "b" for more fine-grained climate identification. Tony Avent of <a href="http://www.plantdelights.com/">PlantDelights Nursery</a> was a big proponent of the updated system.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gardenrant.com/">GardenRant's</a> Susan Harris has already posted a good discussion on the issue, including some of the decision-making and issues of climate change that were considered in the new map's construction, so I will direct interested readers to her blog (according to which, Buffalo is now "slightly balmier." Ha!<br />
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Atlanta is now officially zone 8a...bring on the tropics!Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-8772204727091191492012-01-27T19:11:00.000-08:002012-01-27T19:57:20.043-08:00A pleading word about the selection at the Georgia Green Industry's 2012 Trade Show<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Despite my appreciation of the tenet in <a href="http://www.gardenrant.com/">GardenRant's</a> manifestio that claims suspicion of "the horticultural industry" and being "turned off by landscaping with plant materials," I attended the Georgia Green Industry's 2012 Wintergreen Trade Show. It's a good way to reconnect with fellow designers and nurserymen and to source plants and materials for the upcoming year (at least I always hope it will be). I must confess that I'm not the best candidate for offering a fair assessment of the event, as it's pretty unlikely I'd have anything good to say about something that takes place in a big showroom under bad flourescent lights and requires a trip up I-85.<br />
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So, I tell you to read this with a grain of salt for fairness' sake. Indeed, I did see some people with whom I enjoyed reconnecting, and perused some lovely plants, including a dreamy Rhodoleia henryi grown by Ted Steven's at <a href="http://www.nurcar.com/">Nurseries Caroliniana</a>--it's a Lorapetalum relative in the Witchhazel family that has big Camellia/ Daphniphyllum-like leaves and a blousy pinkish-red flower that could be a cross among the flowers of an Illicium, a Camellia, a Fuschia, and a Christmas Cactus. <br />
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So here's where my complaining comes in: I'm frustrated that the evervated economy continues to drive decisions that in turn hurt the economy further: I didn't see many special plants, which is concerning at a trade show as nurseries are usually trying to showcase their best (with some exceptions of course, like the standout conifers from <a href="http://www.topiarycourtyard.com/">Topiary Courtyard</a>, a great Dyckia, some Agaves, and an elegant Strobilanthes from Grandiflora, an amazing dwarf Metasequoia at <a href="http://www.goodnessgrows.com/">Goodness Grows</a>, grasses and forbs from <a href="http://www.bakerenvironmentalnursery.com/">Baker Environmental</a>, to name a few). And among the special plants I did see, I doubt they will ever be available for me to purchase, because the growers aren't doing them in any viable quantities. In talking to Debra Green of <a href="http://www.greennurseries.com/">Green Nurseries</a> about having difficulty finding Abies firma--an Abies well suited for the South--she said they're going to have have stop growing them and do more bread and butter plants because of the "hurting economy." David pointed out that their doing more bread and butter hurts our economy, because being designers who are also passionate about plants requires that we have a broad palette of plants that thrive in our area--not just the obvious landscapey plants. Although I might have no qualms about $15-$30 on a select mail order perennial that looks worse than a starving street urchin for my own gardening, I can't do that for a client. The business side of garden design requires plants that make an impact in a new design. But the business side can't only rely on big boring Leylands.<br />
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There is a bad cycle that results when we're in a slump: designers don't purchase large quantities of cool plants because we're not getting projects that allow for them; thus, we can't order them from the nurseries, nurseries stop growing them, and consequently we don't see them available even when we do have projects and the economy is picking up. This in turn makes the work we do less exciting and distinctive, and therefore harder for us to win good projects. The nurseries then get bad data about the plants people are willing to buy, as they have so narrowed the universe of possibilities and won't risk branching that they stop testing the market. I understand that the nursery business is a hard one--very hard--and that it's been especially tough in GA due to the drought that knocked us over a couple of years before the economy bottomed. But we're ready to grow interesting plants that really thrive here for us! Not just another variety of Hydrangea macrophylla. And not just another Otto Leucan Laurel look-alike. Take a risk nurseries, and we will do our best to patron you!Kristin (LandFieldSky)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14087595335599251060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140422921339708730.post-25315119651195845072012-01-14T09:13:00.000-08:002012-01-14T09:16:17.024-08:00Letters from Las Vegas & BeLoose Graphics Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZKSyMzKi0S7AGlvzOXjVJG1hNkBmobju3yuftfEpBv_eqa5_2gspTAt7gdJ00fvIkbcfCWLyXKhAqW0g7usK29GxLnatCZerVhITintHPyMhCLvxOm70B9tCk1v6i4kANHOzI8CDmR4/s1600/Las+Vegas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZKSyMzKi0S7AGlvzOXjVJG1hNkBmobju3yuftfEpBv_eqa5_2gspTAt7gdJ00fvIkbcfCWLyXKhAqW0g7usK29GxLnatCZerVhITintHPyMhCLvxOm70B9tCk1v6i4kANHOzI8CDmR4/s320/Las+Vegas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I visited the <a href="http://www.springspreserve.org/attractions/gardens.html">Botanical Gardens at Springs Preserve</a>--well worth the visit, with some lovely plantings (Especially the Cactus Alley!), walkways, and innovative architectural structures, but I think the layout is somewhat fragmented and the overall concept needs more development. I think it probably looked amazing on a planview and in CAD, but there needs to be more development with respect to the organization of space once you're inside and interacting with the garden. I do love that the garden deconstructs to meet the Las Vegas Valley and trails on the back side of the site. </span><br />
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