[Blake Rhinehart]

I’d recommend this book. Its very helpful. Firescaping

[Blake Rhinehart]

I switched once I learned National was making a push for PLA. Below is a link to their reasoning for why.

ASLA Encourages all Licensed Landscape Architects to use PLA

[Blake Rhinehart]

We have been experimenting with using a Oculus head set to provide VR walkthroughs of our projects. It is time consuming but we have received a strong reaction from clients. 

[Blake Rhinehart]

Drew – Working in a CA firm we struggle with this as well. We have had to create most of our plant cutouts from our own photos. Here are two resources we have been able to pull some plants from. Not sure how many CA natives they have but worth a shot: 

http://www.sketchuptexture.com/p/cut-out-png-resources.html

http://www.gobotree.com/   [search the cutout, plant option]

Hope this helps. If I think of anymore I will post them. 

[Blake Rhinehart]

I work for a medium size firm and some of the ways we encourage wellness and innovation are:

-Company walks at 3pm, we all get up and go work a walk around the building each day. 

-Every employee is allowed to spend time out of their week to research anything they want. It is only an hour a week but it has become a good time for employees to look up interesting articles, projects and tutorials and share them with their coworkers. 

-Team brainstorms: At a minimum of once a month the company as a whole gets together to brainstorm ideas from everything from a project specifics, to design techniques, to how we can improve our company. These are a great way to encourage new ideas and collaborate as a team. 

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