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Really? Do you remember the title of this book? Hoodoos is a fun word…

There are all kinds of fun landform words, also, like ‘hoodoos’ , that this makes me think of…karst-fenster, slump, table-land,…a whole book of these came out a few years ago, really interesting…

Fun topic! I can only think of atrocious ones – a new one at the Hotel Del in Coronado, unbelievable missed opportunity to do something great, and they just did same old same old..
I thnk Paley Park in Manhattan is probably my favorite small gardens – great design..For edgy, Martha Schwartz’s Whitehouse Insititute, or something like that, and the…[Read more]

Ha! Nice one…

Optimize the compromise.

Have you read “Tending the Wild” by M. Kat Anderson? Excellent book on how Native Americans lived in California for 10,000 years…also you may wish to read works by Alrie Middlebrook and Judith Larner Lowry.

Also, the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanic Garden in Hawaii.

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/greenwell/about.html

Get in touch with Gary Martin who lives in Marrakesh. He’s been doing really interesting ethnobotany work there for years.
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Endangered_Lang_Conf/Martin.html

I’m also thinking of the National Botanical Garden, Limahuli Garden and Preserve, located on Kauai. It is an ethnobotanic garden. The director is Kawika Winter.…[Read more]

I like this one – “threshold fallow regimes”. Huh?

Thanks for your help everyone! Keep’em coming…

greenies. The space between the buildings.

just kidding. :^}

nice ryan

Spatial Mitigation

Greenscapes

You can use ondugreen system at the roof. It also saves water in that egg thing and let you use that water by evaporation again..You may check it from http://www.onduline.com.tr/Urunler/sistem-ONDUGREEN.aspx (see acrobat reader)But it also gives different types of Sedum as an example you’ll see..
I made a flat type roof garden and watered it with…[Read more]

Try this…
http://www.ruderal.com/bullshit/bullshit.htm

folly = nonsensical structure

I’m loving the inventiveness the ‘landscape urbanism’ movement is bringing to the english language.

I would also add:

water feature= fountain (depending on who you ask of course. Andrew might say ‘retention pond’ lol)
juxtaposition= what I did has nothing to do with the stuff around it.

definitely. I actually hate the word now that I’ve heard it so much and I’m not sure that most people can even design a sense of place. I guess thats getting into another topic altogether.