Groups – Activity – Susan Dunlap

Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago

p.s. Sandra, if you find other gardens that aren’t on the TLD, please let me know and I’ll add them – that goes for anywhere, including Portugal. We are always expanding our database.

sandra costa posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago

hello everyone!
Does anyone knows examples of hospital’s therapeutic gardens in Canada?
thanks
sandra

Jeremy Sison posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

Here are some other resources. las pilitas nursery. 2 locations. North San Diego county (Escondido) & San Luis Obispo. http://www.laspilitas.com. website is deep with info. Another is “California Native Plants for the Garden” by Carol Bornstein, Bart O’brien & David Fross. Cachuma Press. David Fross was my Cal Natives Professor at Cal Poly, SLO. Lots of…[Read more]

Mark Simmons posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

Agree with Ken and Blake. There’s also some nurseries that specialize in natives. Yerba Buena Nursery south of SF has a demonstration garden with labeled plants and the owners are VERY knowledgeable. Also, North Coast Nursery and Cal Flora in Sonoma County. Also, it’s good to be mindful of the fact that California has many totaly different native…[Read more]

Ken Smith posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

Katrina, to clarify, UCBG and Tilden are in Berkeley and Merritt College is in Oakland.

Brock Axthelm posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

The South Lake Tahoe and North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Gardens show a plethora of California Native plants used in the high Sierra. These gardens give great examples of California Native plants at diffrent stages of development.

Ken Smith posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

Agree with Blake — the Merritt program is great. I also volunteered at Tilden’s native nursery on Thursday mornings — propagating, etc. It was a great way to learn about natives. U.C. Botanical Garden and the Tilden Park (native) Botanical Garden are both stunning places to check out CA natives in a park setting.

Blake Rothschild posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years, 7 months ago

you may also want to check out the horticulture program at Merritt College for i.d. classes. http://www.merrritt.edu

Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 7 months ago

Latest TLDBlog post is on medicinal herbs in the healing garden: http://tldb.blogspot.com.

Steve Hata posted an update in the group Irrigation Design 15 years, 7 months ago

Rob,

There are a lot of good softwares out there, selection really depends on your situation and needs. I would “demo’ as many softwares as possible to see which one fits your office best.

For Autocad, Raincad for Autocad works well. It runs in Autocad as a toolbar, similar to Express Tools. You still have the full function of autocad while…[Read more]

Rob Rosner posted an update in the group Irrigation Design 15 years, 7 months ago

I was able to find some irrigation training and I am more confident now. However, I am looking to purchase irrigation design software. What are the best choices out there? Land F/X? IrriCalc? RainCAD? Others?

Aidan Joseph ffrench posted an update in the group Portfolios and Resumes – Design Strategies 15 years, 7 months ago

yep, sure I could contribute! well done Jennifer

Shimi Dahan posted an update in the group Digital assets and resources 15 years, 7 months ago

Whilst I am glad you all find the discussion useful – let’s avoid blank statements and overlooking the progress some applications had achieved. Every release of each application brings many new and sometimes very good features. Some of these upgrades make a huge difference and change the appeal of the software.
So for 2D – AutoCAD LT is g…[Read more]

Tom Fitzgerald posted an update in the group Digital assets and resources 15 years, 7 months ago

I’ve been using Rhino and just a word of caution, it is primarily an industrial design 3D modeling program and I’ve found that it does not work well for large scale applications. It exceeds in designing small elements, which can then be exported into other programs that work better with land manipulation.

I think this conversation is great…[Read more]

Eric Gilbey posted an update in the group Digital assets and resources 15 years, 7 months ago

After using AutoCAD for about 12 years of drafting, and then switching over to Vectorworks Landmark, I would say without hesitation that the advantages of working in Vectorworks over AutoCAD are immense. The only reason why I had been using the “industry standard” is because I didn’t seek anything better. Many take their work out of AutoCAD to do…[Read more]

Tammy Martin posted an update in the group Portfolios and Resumes – Design Strategies 15 years, 7 months ago

Great idea for a group! As I accumulate drawings with each class, I am at a loss of what to do with it all, what is worthy to include in a portfolio and how best to create a portfolio.