https://land8.com/members/williammartin/activity/ Activity feed for william martin. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:35:21 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c1b2111e7f705f27b763f6c2cc565a5b https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161549 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:47:37 +0000 “This discussion is getting more complicated than it’s worth.  Forget about “LAs don’t know plants” because when there are 2,500 different selections of Dianthus to choose from who gives a crap anymore.”
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Rick i don’t need to read anything to know what garden/landscape is but I do find it rather interesting that at a time when public spa…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ed7b462254ab75440fc6d390973110f https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161552 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:58:36 +0000 Leslie, ‘Gardens imply the hand of man somewhat more’ Mmm i would have thought that most LA work alludes more to that ‘hand’ than spaces softened by living matter?

]]> 0 ebe6420f9dd8360cab3a113a4565c452 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161553 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:55:18 +0000 Thanks Henry, I would have thought it unimportant if i were LA or otherwise as the Q was quite plain and straight forward! I however thought the ‘fight’ to be reasonable tame all things considered!  I enjoyed the banter!
 
 
 

]]> 0 7f060479c3142e1f5922e9943e121f9e https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161555 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:12:31 +0000 Henry, I am not a LA and it was a Q out of curiosity as to how LAs view their work . many folk regard (maybe more so older generations) LA work as NOT garden despite the use of plants.
Perhaps LA designed public spaces are indeed gardens of OUR time with a new moniker?
I read somewhere that LD was more something to be viewed from a distance ra…[Read more]

]]> 0 e09b54e5df1f71ef5a27811813ccf7df https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161556 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:24:36 +0000 Woops I get it!

]]> 0 6c43f1af95b2979cbce1af85a512389d https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161557 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:16:10 +0000 Grand statement..to what are you referring?

]]> 0 4cf525e5a3f5795bcb4e749f394c473a https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161558 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:50:23 +0000 would like to hear what you have to say about the question posed.
Is this a Q for me Henry?

]]> 0 8912f2b41e7a1f47dd51d9df3b798491 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/#post-161559 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:22:01 +0000 Mmmm Lets take a LA design for around an office block downtown…where does the landscape begin and end?

]]> 0 42d0740935ed2ecdcef28c451b788ac8 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161560 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:16:49 +0000 Thanks all for your input..there are many interpretations to be had, some better than others Last but not least..When one visits a public garden one might say “I am going to #### garden.” Does one say if entering a LA area “I am going to #### landscape”?

]]> 0 16c44d90369aa84203dfe1ded4aba9d3 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161561 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:56:38 +0000 leslie..fair enough but a lot of LA displays ‘mechanics’ over ‘landscape’..often with outdated ‘idea’s’ from the fine arts arena ..Is fine art a component of LA training?

]]> 0 35b8d903a74e805b3d57d0e776d48bab https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161562 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:49:53 +0000 jordan, i think you might find many trained garden designers use ‘design principles’ before choosing plantlife too.
 
 

]]> 0 bc3776a24be9f5c9d344145c1f869d4b https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161569 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:37:42 +0000 another
http://thinkingardens.co.uk/articles/can-professional-designers-really-hope-to-emulate-those-for-whom-a-garden-is-a-lifes-work/

]]> 0 c67dafecef3fe5e0561b82d94918003a https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161570 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:36:35 +0000 Richardsons article link
http://thinkingardens.co.uk/articles/did-you-say-the-g-word-wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap/

]]> 0 a4e0b58a92eaa65713ea0b408ba8b1fa https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161572 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:27:26 +0000 L.A.s seemed to be called in for even quite small spaces..what makes an LA approach different to a Garden designer?

]]> 0 bea695784860df0e02107cc16413481f https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161573 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:25:04 +0000 So where does the landscape sit?

]]> 0 1cc31369e06230b026c4d48f5f4d2d61 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/2/#post-161574 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:20:50 +0000 Leslie, an excellent answer. The word ‘garden’ according to English writer Tim Richardson has become almost a ‘dirty’ word..or words to that effect.. Is the ‘highline’ a garden or Landscape architecture with embellishments by a plantsman/artist (Oudolf)?
 

]]> 0 a53069e26b44a4b5dee231ec922c305f https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/3/#post-161576 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:58:53 +0000 Jon, Mmm as you probably are aware (at least from AU) L.A.s are often considered the last profession qualified to deal with plantlife….Even qualified garden designers are becoming (and often admit) plant weak. Your comment suggests that perhaps L.A.s are more L. Engineers?

]]> 0 64a98414ec44c27d553ca60c5a036772 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/3/#post-161580 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:21:34 +0000 Is not exterior designer a more appropriate name for L.A.?

]]> 0 2c929e3ca97daf25c655189b72d23971 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/3/#post-161581 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:12:56 +0000 Often large parklike private gardens were named ‘landscapes’

]]> 0 65e315183347bb473f123862499c6d73 https://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-or-garden/page/3/#post-161582 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:10:51 +0000 ah but gardens can be quite large and for the public?

]]> 0 469a510cd70961c6cd40d7f0057c8f2b https://land8.com/forums/topic/beyond-the-border-how-to-use-perennials-and-grasses-in-landscape-settings/#post-161609 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:12:42 +0000 One need only look to ‘natural’ habitat for ‘inspiration’ and guidance.Way more informative than any book!

]]> 0 b72c7fd77ed9443beb337ab1a7cc6416 https://land8.com/forums/topic/permaculture-and-landscape-architecture/#post-161745 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:53 +0000 Surely a  more sustainable approach is a social and moral obligation? (and professorial)

]]> 0 f4e93f4c23109bc88151fdb60c73b92a https://land8.com/forums/topic/in-search-of-a-good-perennials-reference-or-dirr-for-herbaceous-plants/#post-161616 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:13:53 +0000 Any books by the late Graham Stuart Thomas.” Perennial garden Plants” or the modern florilegium is THE Bible in my book (pardon the pun)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perennial-Garden-Plants-Modern-Florilegium/dp/071122403X

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