Groups – Activity – Tammy Martin

Glenn Kranich posted an update in the group California Native Plants 16 years ago

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]

ashley cruz posted an update in the group California Native Plants 16 years ago

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?

Geoffrey Katz posted an update in the group California Native Plants 16 years ago

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

Peter Jensen posted an update in the group California Native Plants 16 years ago

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

Socal Asla posted an update in the group SOCAL ASLA 16 years ago

John Gibbons posted an update in the group Habitat Restoration and Mitigation 16 years, 1 month ago

Deltalok USA can provide a solution to to erosion control, vegetated retaining walls, strembank restoration and virtually any soil stabilization project with a GREEN product that reduces GHG by 97% over hardscapes.

Robin Alyse Doyle posted an update in the group Residential Design Group 16 years, 1 month ago

Hands-on all-day workshop on Modeling Residential Sites with Slope in Google SketchUp (for intermediate/advanced users) in San Francisco Feb. 20th, 2010

tal_sketchup.pdf

Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi James,
Actually, my professor introduced me to your work this past summer, my first semester in LA, and it was he who let me know about your rendering techniques and color usage. In fact, our first shot at perspectives involved 20 minute perspective-making sessions that aimed to emulate your graphics.
I could only hope that if he hadn’t told…[Read more]

James Richards posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi Vanessa; glad you’re having success with the colored pencil techniques. You have a good eye! I do use a cream pencil combined with peach on almost all buildings and hardscape at the very beginning of coloring a drawing, then wash over them with whatever color will best depict the material I’m envisioning…terra cotta, slate blue. etc. The…[Read more]

Eric Shepley posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Nick,
Thanks! I’ll probably be doing more of these in the future and I would like to seed them be as representative of the true design as possible.

Thanks!

nca posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Eric-

I got your message. I need to make some evergreens for a plan tomorrow as fate would have it. I’ll post my steps here or shoot you a message.

-Nick

nca posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Eric,

I couldn’t tell you how to do it using drop shadows, but I could offer some good advice on doing it manually in photoshop without creating numerous layer copies and keeping the file size down.

send me a message if you still need help with this and I’ll explain some simple tricks.

Jim Del Carpio posted an update in the group Irrigation Design 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi All,
A little Bio. for your consumption. I started irrigation design in 2001 in Arizona. Worked with a L. A. in Arizona, who exclusively went after IRRIG. projects. He did very well, However I wanted to grow to other areas and moved on. Jump to the present, In the last office I worked in (March 2009), My billable hours for Irrigation Design was…[Read more]

Dr.Thiruvelavan posted an update in the group Residential Design Group 16 years, 2 months ago

hai nice to join in this group

Eric Shepley posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

Does anyone have good method for doing evergreen shadows in photoshop with the drop shadow?

Dean Howell posted an update in the group UCLA Extension Student Chapter of ASLA 16 years, 2 months ago

is there a study group preparing for the March A B and D Sections? LETS HAVE AT IT>

Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group Graphics 16 years, 2 months ago

James Richards is great. I love his simple color palette. He blends darker colors in his lighter colors to make things look cohesive. For instance, he used carmine red and true blue (i think it was true blue) prismacolor color pencils over cream to create this really nice effect. So, the cream hardscape and buildings really popped after i tried to…[Read more]

MJ Martin posted an update in the group California Native Plants 16 years, 3 months ago

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]