Steve Martino

Kornegay designs

I’m working on a talk about garden design for the upcoming ASLA convention. part of my talk is “lessons you didn’t learn in school”, one is: landscaping is a situation where you can spend an enormous amount of money and when your done you still can have all the problems you started with….it’s often just eyewash.

thank you, this is not the company that i saw. i will contact these people to see if they can make a wider 3 section gate. they seem to have a different mechanism than the other gate companies. i think i will need to find an inventor to make it. thanks again.

thanks for the reply, these doors need a top and bottom rail. they are great doors one of my recent projects used them.

Russell, thanks for the response, i am hoping to find a gate company in LA that has experience w/ this type of gate, the gate design is sitting at the moment while we search for a company w/ this experience. if it comes down to having to invent the gate myself i will give you a call for some help. I’m nearby in Sunnyslope. this client expects the…[Read more]

a few books on my shelf:
Title: The Poetics of Gardens Author(s): Charles W. Moore, William J Mitchell, William Turnbull, Jr. Publisher: The MIT Press

The Architecture of Western Gardens
Editors: Mosser and Teyssot
Publisher: MIT Press

The History of Gardens
Author: Christopher Thacker
Publisher: University of California Press
 

absolutely, i have always thought you could design an entire garden with plants people throw out in the alley for the trash men to take away. i have salvaged numerous plants for my garden by just finding them. when i trim my succulents and cactus from my garden i hate to throw them out. i put them in salvaged nursery cans from my projects, after…[Read more]

Amanda, i have been working for myself for over 35 years and i have probably learned most things the hard way. i read your story a few times trying to understand what you are saying rather than what you are asking. Seth and Andrew have given you some practical advice, i can give you practical advice but i think it might be more beneficial to give…[Read more]