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This discussion is getting more complicated than it’s worth.  Forget about “LAs don’t know plants” because when there are 2,500 different selections of Dianthus to choose from who gives a crap anymore.  We can’t clone a Beatrix Farrand, Andrew Downing, Garrett Eckbo, Jens Jensen, or a Frederick Law Olmsted like LA departments are trying to do…[Read more]

Leslie, ‘Gardens imply the hand of man somewhat more’ Mmm i would have thought that most LA work alludes more to that ‘hand’ than spaces softened by living matter?

Thanks Henry, I would have thought it unimportant if i were LA or otherwise as the Q was quite plain and straight forward! I however thought the ‘fight’ to be reasonable tame all things considered!  I enjoyed the banter!
 
 
 

William on the painting references, I was trying to make a linguistic point more than saying fine arts are in the thoughts of LA’s specifically as they work. On the other question, “When one visits a public garden one might say “I am going to #### garden.” Does one say if entering a LA area “I am going to #### landscape”?”……
 
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Henry, I am not a LA and it was a Q out of curiosity as to how LAs view their work . many folk regard (maybe more so older generations) LA work as NOT garden despite the use of plants.
Perhaps LA designed public spaces are indeed gardens of OUR time with a new moniker?
I read somewhere that LD was more something to be viewed from a distance ra…[Read more]

Definately get the license.  Studying for the tests and taking them will make you better at what you do, especially grading and site design.  There’s a lot of stuff on the tests that you don’t learn in school and helps you look at things a bit differently.

Woops I get it!

Grand statement..to what are you referring?

would like to hear what you have to say about the question posed.
Is this a Q for me Henry?

Mmmm Lets take a LA design for around an office block downtown…where does the landscape begin and end?

Thanks all for your input..there are many interpretations to be had, some better than others Last but not least..When one visits a public garden one might say “I am going to #### garden.” Does one say if entering a LA area “I am going to #### landscape”?

leslie..fair enough but a lot of LA displays ‘mechanics’ over ‘landscape’..often with outdated ‘idea’s’ from the fine arts arena ..Is fine art a component of LA training?

jordan, i think you might find many trained garden designers use ‘design principles’ before choosing plantlife too.
 
 

It depends on what you want the experience to be. Fast movement = larger radius curves. Slower movement = tighter radius curves. If it’s private property you could make the curves as tight as you want. If it’s public then you would most likely need to meet ADA or local design guidelines.

Darn. So, Landscape equals garden plus or minus landscape to the negative first degree. Landscapes within the garden shall not exceed a single negative deviation in scale. Gardens can expand infinitely within the landscape but the landscape can only contract by one degree within the garden. The landscape may not shrink exponentially within the garden.

Touche’ – Though it does raise the question: Could one have a garden within the landscape that is within the garden that’s within the landscape?

A garden designer is a gardener that thought it might be fun to throw designer on the end. Even though they may or may not have been educated in design. So often they put together a assemblage of plants in a cool looking way. We as LAs would look at the plants as a part of a whole landscape and create something using the design principals first…[Read more]

I second this comment. This is a discussion that maybe should have happened when you were deciding between Land. Arch and Horticulture at your University. Maybe when deciding against the two year landscape design/hort. course at the local Vocational-tech School.
If you have a LA degree you have spent at least double the amount of time in school as…[Read more]

Now in my yard I am a gardener and I design small portions of my yards separate gardens. I also have been paid to build and design other peoples gardens as part of my job as a Landscape Architect. This does not make me a garden designer it makes me a Landscape Architect that has designed gardens as a subset of the landscape.
 
 

There is a realm I think parallels this question, and it is painting. I definitely get a “grand view” image …whether it is Italian or Californian doesn’t matter, but a big scenic view with castles, gorges, mountains etc. in mind (even oriental sketch style) if you say there is a “landscape painting” exhibition, just as I would think waves and…[Read more]