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I started collecting and propagation with/without rooting hormones moons ago.

However, my work, somehow significant from my perspective,  one eye man among the blind, started when I coined the concept .endemismo trasnochado and pendejismo paisajista, both were defined at the time, 7 years ago and could be found if you go to search.  Both cover the horticultural trends in Puerto Rico USA in the last 50 years.,

More recently, I felt some satisfaction when a couple of reviews on my installation in a mostly concrete backyard in the urban context in Puerto Rico appeared in the web.

The English review mentioned one of my blogs. The Spanish link shows some photos of the installation in our residence during the last 3 years, transforming a dull, sterile environment into a space/garden thought in terms of flora/fauna. Not predominant and feeble minded trends in the architectural  landscape square minds in Boricua Architects on this site and the isle as a whole.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7741396/5_gardening_blogs_you_should_read.html?cat=32

http://www.guiaverde.com/blog/destacadas/jardin-tropical-en-puerto-rico

In brief, my favorite architect designers are Cesar Manrique Cabrera and Barragan in that order.

In Puerto Rico, there is NO ONE worthy of merit NOW or in the last 50 years. The most known a Cuban fellow, Berriz, is another mercenary whose work, mostly palms, turf and silly hedges is not available on the web, as if his work was worthy of stealing or copying.

I am not the last Coke in the concrete/asphalt isle of Puerto Rico, just the only one with an abrasive, not complacent, critical, with some credentials and a plant collection that kicks butt.

That is humbly, how I started and continue ahead. In my view, there are no laurels, no sleeping, just setting some trends or a little blunt debate with solid arguments once in  a blue moon.
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I have a collection of over 100 species. I have bought maybe 5 plants in the last five years in nurseries.  The landscape architects in Puerto Rico, ignorant of botany, final size of anything after five years, composition and else…Go to Home Depot, and design, install the same plant selection no matter if the residence is worth a million or 2 hundred thousand.  Much worse, the placement of the chosen ones is always the same in trios, triangles or rows as in an edible garden in straight line or silly curves.

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It is stimulating to receive such response.  In Puerto Rico, that is not the case.  Every installation in the concrete/asphalt isle is contaminated with chefferas, Ficus hedges, lawns and palm trees as any one could confirm in  recent posts regarding Pendemismo Paijasista, the dominant trend/school for the last 40 or 50 years.  caribbeanbotanicalreview and antigonumcajaneveningpost.blogspot,com have presented examples and options to the dull installations no matter if in humid/wet/cool in the center or hot/dry ecoregions not far from the coast.

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Cesar Manrique Cabrera and your humble servant:  

http://www.guiaverde.com/blog/destacadas/jardin-tropical-en-puerto-rico

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