https://land8.com/members/ernstglaeser/activity/ Activity feed for Ernst Glaeser. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:35:21 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 875cfec71a63a00e6ed6c61ea0020547 https://land8.com/forums/topic/planting-plans/#post-152524 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:01:16 +0000 Agree, made similar experience, not only in China but also in the MENA region.

]]> 0 bb335ffc177c7a9221b229aa3e718d7b https://land8.com/forums/topic/planting-plans/#post-152532 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:13:44 +0000 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.

]]> 0 6526314f81e0a749a415eef98872ac05 http://land8.com/forums/topic/planting-plans/#post-152536 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:15:10 +0000 Hi Craig, I had given a RoT a bit further down. Footprint at plant age of 15 years for concept. Common practice in Germany.   

]]> 0 d440939a324917065a9a96403064c6ab http://land8.com/forums/topic/planting-plans/page/2/#post-152538 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:44:02 +0000 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]

]]> 0 789d33006734441da2fd503be1b8e83b http://land8.com/forums/topic/planting-plans/page/2/#post-152539 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:36:49 +0000 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.

]]> 0 8893920f0b9b367c43725c7721dc2870 https://land8.com/forums/topic/has-anyone-successfully-transitioned-out-of-the-landscape-architecture-field/#post-152557 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:45:31 +0000 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]

]]> 0 551fbd998923a0a1320d423f8d52efd9 https://land8.com/forums/topic/tree-irrigation/#post-152611 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:37:06 +0000 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]

]]> 0 695f1a477df38d643c1a98a45cd5272c http://land8.com/forums/topic/underground-tree-anchoring-systems/#post-152996 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:29:02 +0000 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]

]]> 0 ee8ebcbe0678c1282d7c111dc6fe91b4 https://land8.com/forums/topic/tree-stakes/#post-155203 Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:39:14 +0000 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]

]]> 0 4412a6d8f493f3d667ec7b5edb428c7d https://land8.com/forums/topic/moving-to-shenzhen-in-need-of-design-job/#post-152846 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 04:31:50 +0000 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]

]]> 0 ee964bb46455f28f837e2e68f5d6825a http://land8.com/forums/topic/not-your-grandmothers-landscape-abu-dhabi-plaza/#post-152940 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:30:46 +0000 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” 

]]> 0 7b74a6ec5b13cbcf7e48a4dc3fa88282 http://land8.com/forums/topic/not-your-grandmothers-landscape-abu-dhabi-plaza/#post-152941 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:54:58 +0000 Hi now the file as promissed

]]> 0 cf198f821879f39ddf25b5e4e8715e33 https://land8.com/forums/topic/french-discussion/#post-176801 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:20:06 +0000 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

]]> 0 304c7cce2dd7d40152f54d3cb03c2a50 https://land8.com/forums/topic/meaning-of-name/#post-153476 Wed, 25 Dec 2013 03:28:06 +0000 Scott, what are you smoking? Is the imagination going?

]]> 0 aa98d2d8befd69be8462c1eaf3a9b109 https://land8.com/forums/topic/meaning-of-name/page/2/#post-153477 Wed, 25 Dec 2013 03:25:57 +0000 LAND AID ??
Help Mother Earth and us all

]]> 0 984fdfe7e9391de529ae9747815f813c http://land8.com/forums/topic/animals-in-the-rain-garden/page/2/#post-153639 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:59:39 +0000 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.

]]> 0 0d3d0e1d3cb653117113f24cf478014a https://land8.com/forums/topic/paving-around-an-old-ficus-help-needed-please/#post-154005 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:16:53 +0000 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.

]]> 0 2c01098bb86f04f46cd1483500d50e4a https://land8.com/forums/topic/banning-leed-may-just-be-a-good-idea/#post-154210 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:11:21 +0000 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]

]]> 0 cf575f804ea0834ac5ed26435ce96b99 https://land8.com/forums/topic/whats-your-favorite-job-interview-question/#post-154587 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 05:20:48 +0000 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]

]]> 0 3537950131514fb303dda1bfafe3a0f5 https://land8.com/forums/topic/working-over-40-hours/#post-166064 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:12:13 +0000  
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]

]]> 0 126440cc1c29cbdfdf9afa966aa617b6 https://land8.com/forums/topic/study-shows-urban-vegetation-correlates-with-reduced-crime-rates/#post-155051 Fri, 10 May 2013 02:52:52 +0000 not even Berberis would do the job, but a good club from an Oak tree might do the job.

]]> 0 6f8fa2fa168ba63407e7f688bcba38d4 http://land8.com/forums/topic/study-shows-urban-vegetation-correlates-with-reduced-crime-rates/#post-155054 Thu, 09 May 2013 14:30:38 +0000 I like it,
It supports my suspicion against a criminal behind each bush

]]> 0 688d8619c5facf515c946731c021cfed https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-architecutre-response-to-natural-disaster/#post-155281 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:18:56 +0000 Weren’t the buildup, by greed, areas swamps and wetlands in the past?
The ordinary flood impact could be minimized by a respectful observation and study of old elevation maps. It is our all duty to guide and mentor to have these areas being brought back to their natural function.
Tornados, hurricanes, taifuns, usually going together with heavy w…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c5e2563f843af31a66ab50c1e56b8e3 https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-of-my-portfolio-cover/page/2/#post-155270 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:05:10 +0000 Landscape or VET?

]]> 0 11ea386800db9e6522006812ea3c545a https://land8.com/forums/topic/best-time-of-year-for-the-profession/#post-155275 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:03:56 +0000 Are you looking for a job in the northern or southern hemisphere?
Usuall starting, changing, hiering cycle is quarterly starting 1 January.
Depending which cultural cycle you belong to one has usually 4 weeks to 3 month notice period.
Clients usually wake up late and contract last second resulting in majority of design contracts starting in…[Read more]

]]> 0 e800af6169974365c84a9bd9a9769f2d https://land8.com/forums/topic/conserving-water-considered-historically-innappropriate/#post-155309 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:20:21 +0000 The freedom of mind, expression of interest, the freedom of design and other artistic brain farts are one side. The Client’s wish and vision is another side.
Socio- and other administrative enforced constrains, rules, and regulations are jet another.
Feasibility makes another side of the medal.
Cost- benefit is the side of value engineering.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfca5bd2e3b3020100ee27af59f589dc https://land8.com/forums/topic/any-kind-of-book-for-project-a-terrain-footbal-stadiums/#post-155372 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:38:16 +0000 http://www.turfandrec.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2579&Itemid=159
 
Try this for a start, it’s all about drainage on grass courts

]]> 0 f410abe6e2e23e0b4133f0f1ad0096ac http://land8.com/forums/topic/abundance-of-florida-plants/#post-172338 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:37 +0000 Hi Jim,
My best experience over years was to visit the local Botanical Gardens and other Open to the Public Private Gardens established “long time back”.
These people tried a lot, and what you see now are the successful plants.
The danger with books and similar material is that they very often paste and copy, especially the mistakes. Reg Ernst

]]> 0 5d25d3dc4df75263664d28e4f4c9cbe9 https://land8.com/forums/topic/should-landscape-architecture-contemplate-the-inclusion-of-garden-design-as-an-additional-field-of-activity/#post-155965 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:32:07 +0000  
Where is the problem?
In the very old days both was done by the Garden and Landscape Artist, strong background in horticulture and/or architecture.
When I graduated, in Germany, it was Garden and Landscape Architecture. 
Look at it that way, when you blow-up a garden plan you have a great landscape plan. When you scale down a landscape plan to g…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7eddc27c5a635b64c9923fbb6f61776 http://land8.com/forums/topic/in-case-of-emergency-what-if-this-tag-team-actually-wins/#post-156507 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:37:35 +0000 Hi mauiBob,
Get off that horse.
You are a fricking Gardener like all of us, just with a poscher titel.
You are a brown nosed like to be investor who’l burn a lot of $$ over the next year.
Pig ignorant.
Lang lebe das Kapital
reg. Ernst

]]> 0 dd6905c212a52843aa346ceaf67a5766 https://land8.com/forums/topic/how-close-is-too-close-planting-ornamental-trees-near-a-foundation/page/2/#post-156210 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:38:50 +0000 I would advise to use something fork-stemmed, but no a maple. Have something deep or heart shaped rooting. Go and see the nurseries for a tree being a reject for it’s standard. Have the 2 or 3 stemms cleared to a hight of 2m. Choice of tree is difficult to say from here. One thing is right, you need the space from the edge of your walway to allow…[Read more]

]]> 0 25e56680c80f9cefba20fc2e201b552c https://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees/#post-156258 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:00:35 +0000 Doha, Qatar

]]> 0 f293eed197db15a1144eed92a27263bb https://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees/#post-156260 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:44:30 +0000 Dohatia survivelix?

]]> 0 051987961adc0397f84a1010c1d517f4 https://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees-found-in-north-wales/#post-156324 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:47:32 +0000 I can take it, having worked in some obscure countries where photoshop enhencement and copy and paste was the high end of some of my col. made me a bit touchy in that subject.
 

]]> 0 c83da065619e7630b19536c1b70368bc https://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees-found-in-north-wales/#post-156327 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:49:29 +0000 Hi Mark, just for you:
Golden chain tree is a small deciduous tree or large shrub that is noted for its pendulous axillary racemes of yellow, wisteria-like flowers that bloom in spring. It is a hybrid cross between L. alpinum and L. anagyroides. It typically grows 25-30’ tall as a tree and 15-20’ tall as a shrub. Trifoliate, clover-like, med…[Read more]

]]> 0 69b2ee00bf6763395b6689d1ab3ce762 https://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees-found-in-north-wales/#post-156329 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:30:16 +0000 Goldregen,  
Laburnum × watereri “Vossii” (Voss’s laburnum)

]]> 0 bc7ab2b29792c65da67630f226ea2dc1 https://land8.com/forums/topic/middle-east-landscape-architect-vacancies/#post-156397 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:58:23 +0000 AECOM posted a job you may be interested in: Senior Urban Designer/ Planner in Qatar – Doha

]]> 0 b241c5bb5d4dd2f2f56cb9a8b12c0b59 https://land8.com/forums/topic/in-case-of-emergency-what-if-this-tag-team-actually-wins/page/8/#post-156623 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:34:39 +0000 Be honest, hade ever a presidential election had an impact on anything?
Name the Presidents who were not involved in any type of wars.
Name the Presidents who came not into Office without having promised a lot and later were not in the position to push it through.
The years with the most impact, in consequence also to our profession, is usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 a533bb806dc525b5c9dc7214054ad1b8 https://land8.com/forums/topic/middle-east-landscape-architect-vacancies/#post-156404 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:11:56 +0000 Dear Michael,
The most important thing is that you take the initiative into your own hands. Have a comprehensive CV ready, ideally for manufactured to suit a few job openings. Make up your mind which your favorite countries would be and where you don’t want to go at all. Read up on internet about the countries and the hardship factors; ask your pa…[Read more]

]]> 0 13a0d96ce5aa572d4c69ceadd83fcc1f https://land8.com/forums/topic/just-curious/page/2/#post-156451 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:55:43 +0000 And the same accounts for the MENA region

]]> 0 3c5c69beb598faf2abfa54267e4eb5e8 http://land8.com/forums/topic/trees-die-covered-by-granite-gravel-mulch/#post-156680 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:59:10 +0000 Hi folks maybe I had chosen the wrong dicussion group.
Please also see my response on gravel to mark foster’s gravel mulch topic.
TX, Ernst

]]> 0 deea468b9cfa142fab7f07cecaddecc6 https://land8.com/forums/topic/gravel-surfaces/#post-156497 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:55:05 +0000 Hi Mark,
Here in the MENA region gravel mulch is everywhere. It is considered as part of the xeriscape. Our main issue is that the permanent dust and sand flying around blocks all cavities. We have little problems with weeds or grass but need to blow clean – what a stupid job to blow the dust from one tree pit into the next – as this is easier the…[Read more]

]]> 0 25a8cf1141db833b583901092230c6bb http://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees-on-yemen-islands/#post-157008 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:41:29 +0000 that’s not fair, you gave the answer

]]> 0 519d7c0d50f595fd029588e98245677d http://land8.com/forums/topic/name-these-trees-on-yemen-islands/#post-157009 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:40:53 +0000 Dracaena cinnabari

]]> 0 ad6ac16d4f0f734cbdd375bc13b00fca http://land8.com/forums/topic/quality-control-of-multiple-garden-landscape-installation-teams/#post-157421 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:12:15 +0000  
Dear Craig,
I’d started reading the whole chain of ping-pong mails and in the long run gave up. The most important thing is in your introduction sentence “I run …”.
After that initial idea you got greedy. You started small, had done a great admirable job, wanted more, had to expand, got more people, more work, more hours, but you forgot to…[Read more]

]]> 0 fef333da6d7fb7b3b77f7668147103a0 https://land8.com/forums/topic/recessed-utility-access-lids-for-unit-pavers/#post-159538 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:03:09 +0000 Hey Daniel,
There are hundreds of manufacturers around dealing with all sorts of recessed m’hole covers, all clsses; material, depth. have look here, nice pics http://www.pavingexpert.com/recess01.htm
try your search engine with “recessed manhole cover”,
 
Ernst

]]> 0 461d19b925310dcd8d0968791a252d99 https://land8.com/forums/topic/structural-soil-specs-for-middle-east-region/#post-159530 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:06:20 +0000 This is from a spec in Qatar:
Material
Planting soil and structural soil mix
The planting soil and structural soil mix shall consist of approved soil, manure and other soil conditioners as specified in the project documentation.
The mixture shall be placed in accordance with the requirements of the trees, shrubs or grass to be planted.
Planting…[Read more]

]]> 0 c962e7d53aeda3f8f07cfc30cdffe054 https://land8.com/forums/topic/structural-soil-specs-for-middle-east-region/#post-159532 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:42:36 +0000 Is it for hard- or softscape?

]]> 0 1c13ea9a6d45d126b594a6337b6ab579 https://land8.com/activity/p/29102/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:13:59 +0000 Hi folks, it’s me on my lounge in Cairo, but active now in Abu Dhabi.
This is the place to try all this xerophytic plants and other material.
Whenever I come into a new arid area I try to studdy the the vegetation off the beaten tracks. Potential natural vegetation is the best indicator to meet climat and geology. We only (I guess that is the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e426e90f52ede40e140ffb48b7c47dc6 https://land8.com/forums/topic/edible-landscaping/page/2/#post-175038 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:12:01 +0000 where is the fun factor?

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