Alan Ray, RLA

in the 80’s I worked for a huge AE firm that designed many buildings with atrium spaces.
here’s a few tips I learned:
you must acclimate the tree going inside for much less foot candles of light. while the tree growing outside is getting maybe 50,000 foot candles of sunlight, the tree inside may only get 500 foot candles at best with artificial…[Read more]

Design is a Practice…..so, design, design, design….don’t take yourself too seriously…
everyone that’s been around very long can tell you this is not an exact science…
experiment and don’t be afraid to fail, otherwise you’ll struggle over perfection…
I’ve been practicing over 40 years (29 self employed)) and I’m still having a…[Read more]

hp-120
I’ve used hp since the early 90″s,,,
never have had even a service call needed…
my friends with calcomps and summas complain
that they are always needing repairs…sooooo…

I’d be honored to do anyone’s yard…..
I have more opportunity to promote and educate individuals about what landscape architecture is by working in residential than all the commercial, institutional,
educational, parks and recreational and urban design projects combined
And believe me I’ve done a lot of all those in the pas 40years of practice,…[Read more]

well said…
you know. the greenest building is the one already built…

It was a simple question.

Well, How did I live without them all these years??? I guess the same way I have lived without  asla  for decades….
Still not interested in the opinions of interlopers in my profession arguing the merits of unnecessary programs…

this is supposed to be a forum for landscape architects, at least it used to be.
did that get changed ?  does everyone get a trophy now?

look, it’s ok…we were all young and impressionable at one time…
so are you a landscape architect?

it means whatever you think it means….by the way, where is your registration Linda?
Or, are you a another non landscape architect on here telling us what to think?
That would be one definition of encroaching….

hahaha….I resemble that remark!

you’re not allowed to own a gun?

I offer my clients with deer problems my specialized deer eradication service. For a reasonable fee, my son in law and I bring our rifles and dine on free range organic meat all year…
I have found that dogs are about the most effective way to run the deer off the property if my eradication service is not required.

there is an epoxy stabilized gravel that is permeable and
can be very smooth if you use small aggregate such as granite chip or
birds eye pea gravel…. 

Very well said Andrew….I always enjoy your input.

See comment above ….
Where I stated my point.

The Government will rescue us……
Labor intensive maintenance still does not sound very practical to me, which was my original point.

Some is good…that was not my point.
Make work projects are not my idea of something sustainable.
When other peoples money runs out, then what?
Who will maintain it when the city goes broke?

Thanks for posting Mark.
It does look a bit lame to me too…
Is this supposed to be an example of good design?

hp makes the most reliable large format printers….my opinion since the 80’s…