Blake Rothschild

Hi
Does anyone have project info or links where I can find detail on landscape projects in Africa. Especially places out of South Africa.

i just feel in the right place thank you all.

samwel kimani, a fouth year student in bachelor of Landscape architecture from JKUAT-kenya .i am happy to to join the student lounge. please say hi.

Hello everyone, I’m ‘surviving’ the Masters in LA program at the Polytechinic University of Puerto Rico.

I have more more class to go, the thesis… uggg. Hopefully I will graduate in May 2011.

I’m looking forward to help and get help from all of you.

Take care. :))

Thanks Andrew. I’ll get in touch with Brian.

Hi ellena, Check out Terra Ferma. Brian Koch is the principal and has installed award winning designs by Andrea Cochran and Blasen Landscape Architects.

Hi all,

We’re conducting our first ASLA Student Chapter meeting via Skype next week. If interested, shoot me your Skype ID – or add me: ipoetry.

Thanks!

George Chacon
ASLA Student Chapter President at UCBX

Hello, I am looking to team up with a Landscape Contractor to bid on new projects for small residential gardens in San Francisco. I also need a contractor who can advise/bid on a residential project where there is a significant drainage problem that needs to be solved through plantings and some minor engineering such as a swale or terracing. This…[Read more]

hello friends…
I’m looking for some help, ideas, or suggestions about my thesis topic (a sustainable waste management into a park or simply “Garbage Park”)…wherein, i want to run the park that depends on the sustainable waste management, like cost efficient and effective waste to energy methods and how it can be a sustainable,,,, etc…thanks…[Read more]

Glenn, and all
True that clients like to see green plants in the summer. Which is why some designers advocate a mix of native (80%) and non-native (20%) plants. The non-natives – which may require some summer water – stay green while the natives go summer brown.

Since many of our native plants go dormant in the summer as a survival technique to dry summers, I’m saying “advantageous for the summer-dry months” as it relates to the clients who prefer to see green plants and leaves still hanging onto their Buckeyes. Alternatively, Juncus, Western Sword Fern, and Iris, for instance, often receive summer water…[Read more]

Glenn Do you really need to irrigate these plants that you mention in summer? They are native to N California, and so in a “natural” context do not get any summer water. Why would you need to irrigate them in a cultured situation?

I know many of you are concerned with the cost of Labash….well let me reassure you about what you are getting for the money!!!

2 dinners fully catered
2 lunches
Open bar for 3 nights…come on guys you can’t beat this
Tours (fees included in reg price)
Transportation to all of our events and tours
Amazing Lectures by: Mark Rios, Walter Hood,…[Read more]

Ashley- In urban settings, supplemental irrigation is advantageous for the summer-dry months. Specifically, I’ve used inline subsurface drip. Quality growing medium like compost is important too, along with mycorrhizal fungi applications to help plants thrive through root establishment. Some native plant material I have used are: Juncus…[Read more]

does anyone know how rain gardens thrive in the Bay Area? I am wondering because right now, its the rainy season, so everything is getting a lot of water – but when it is summer and dry, how do the plants in the rain garden get their water? What plants do you suggest putting in the rain garden?

Hello all
For those of you in the San Fran Bay Area registration for the tour of East Bay native plant gardens just opened. Went last year, will go again this year. http://www.BringingBacktheNatives.net

Semiarundaria fastuosum is a good screen variety. Dense and upright.

Just a thought from Soil Science perspective on reducing the water requirements for any plant. Use lots of organic material and or peat moss around the plant,(not too much) and surround other areas with sand. Make sure the drip is going on the water holding material. Sand has the lowest affinity for water while clay has the highest and organic…[Read more]

Two years after clearing the invasives in my part of the creekbed in my backyard – you know, plants like Arundo and Tamarisk (how did that get there?) and Washingtonia palms (we all know how that got there) – the birds were kind enough to plant 3 Quercus agrifolia and a Toyon that is now about 12′ high. None of these are requiring additional water…[Read more]

Christmas berry!? They can make a landscape designer a hero!