Ernst Glaeser

Agree, made similar experience, not only in China but also in the MENA region.

That’s why I had originally differentiated between Concept Plan (Rendering to sell your idea) and the Planting Plan who’s making the price. Our forefathers had that “Generation Look”. Unfortunately that got lost over the decades.

Hi Craig, I had given a RoT a bit further down. Footprint at plant age of 15 years for concept. Common practice in Germany.   

I have learned that one should show the footprint of a plant expected after 15 years off planting. It sounds right to me as plants and elevations are the space creating elements and will hardly ever change. This accounts for the concept. When it comes to planting plans I believe one should aim for a surface closure to be achieved within one year…[Read more]

Plants don’t come out off a form. Every species is different and should be addressed accordingly. We LS should know the material which makes us unique to the rest of the civil-, architecture, electrical-, structural-, and so on, world.

What I’ve read above and putting my career path against it I find that it is full of similarities.
Take it, you are not alone. You are at a point where you need to prove to yourself that what you want to do and what you are doing is are satisfying your professional believes as well as feeding your commitments outside of work.
Here a brief of my v…[Read more]

I had a close look on all the baggy watering systems. They look ugly, they are time consuming to fill, and they only work for newly planted trees and shrubs. The only system I can think off, when no shelf irrigation system can be installed or operated is a flood system. This spreads the water best to where it is needed, at the drip line of the…[Read more]

I agree with Rory.
Each project, each tree type, each tree size – caliper and/or height (crown as well as trunk), have their right of existence, usage, and aesthetics.
Streetscape trees with a clear trunk height of just 3 to 4 m and small caliper with tree grate look much bigger with the proper stakes designed and installed.
Trees with shallow r…[Read more]

Hi Jason, I got to disagree here. No matter if bare-rooted, container grown, or root-balled, no matter if just the calliper of a pencil or a mature Methusalem, as long as the tree is exposed to the wind this movement caused to the root system will disturbe the new growth of the adventive roots and with that harm the plant. The root system and t…[Read more]

I fully agree with Walter. Had one year in Nanjing with a local LA firm and a posh American name. Went to Shenzhen after that to join a local LA firm connected to an Australian architecture firm. Here I failed after a hand full of month because of internal animosity issues with some locals and my outspoken attitude. I loved the food; the rest was…[Read more]

Another landscape friend of mine commented: “Hello stranger  – great article on martha  – thanks   – saw it on the weekend  – I was in Abu dhabi  – its is a parterre garden – viewed only from above  – and not used” 

Hi now the file as promissed

Have a look at my folio picture. This is the devil, also called Red Palm Weevil. The eggs are laid into holes made by the Oryctis elegance – Rhino Beetle. Reg Ernst

Scott, what are you smoking? Is the imagination going?

LAND AID ??
Help Mother Earth and us all

If you google unde “HA-HA-EFFECT” you will find that this is a very old way to create an open landscape with undisturbed views but leaving a lot of beasties out. I remember having lerned that the name is A-Ha effect, but who cares. Simmilar models are being used in modern zoo design.

The only feasable solution in such a confined situations seams to me to put a new drive way on stilts.
The surrounding planter beds are already slightly higher.
Bu placing the foundations and colums you might disturbe a few more roots, but what is this to having to loose such a beauty in due time.

Dear all,
As a German I was, and never will be, a friend of LEED. From day 1 it was only a money spinner. And it never really, fully hearted, considdered the Landscape Green Industry.
It was their agressive marketing strategy and the American Administrations sluggish (lobbyistic) response to it. I might be partially wrong here, my 69er European…[Read more]

Googeling, or Yahooing reveals the creative person. No fantasy, copying others had developed.
Give the guys 5 minutes to sketch something, give everyone the same task but only 5 min. Give them another 5 min to verbally describe something but assess now the free speach and the structure of approach.
Ask something technical like “what’s the…[Read more]

 
It is said that we “Germans” work only 35 h/w and are still able to perform.
What a joke! The 35 are wrong but the rest is correct.
I’m over 40 years in business and hardly ever had worked less than 40 h/w. Record were 70+ when I was self-employed. My folks insisted in working to the book and got overtime paid.
My first, until my recent…[Read more]