by Lauren Stimson Originally published in the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Fieldbook, Spring 2018. It began with a walk through the woods in Western Massachusetts. It was the fall…
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Book Review: Sowing Beauty
Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed By James Hitchmough Published by Timber Press, 2017 This magnificent volume’s title underscores the work’s poetic reason for being: as a guide to…
For the Birds
by Karen Bussolini Bluebirds brighten any day, but their blast of blue and muted melodies especially lift my spirits in winter. On sunny mornings they’re like blue-clad clowns catching drops…
Water Wise & Whimsy
by Soleil Tranquilli After years of not quite getting around to designing my own landscape, I finally took the first steps toward a complete renovation in 2009. Eight years later,…
The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer
2017 Conference Session Review by David Falk Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, PA grew out of a large family estate with intricate gardens created for the family’s pleasure. Now open to…
Small Urban Gardens: Big Challenges, Greater Rewards
by Carol Spitzer What makes designing for small urban properties equally challenging and fun? Sometimes the challenges seem endless: very small spaces to work in, shade in all forms, tree…
From Swimming Hole to Artful Landscape
by Shawn Mayers Franklin, MA, hired groundSwell Designs in 2013 to develop a schematic master plan for a small town parcel that had been neglected for almost 50 years. The…
ShadowWorks – Art and Infrastructure at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
by Beka Sturges How do you approach a project? How do you conceive it? How do you represent it? What is at stake? Over the past 15 or so years…
Walk on the Wild Side
by Noel Kingsbury Reprinted with permission of the author from New Small Garden, Quarto Publishing, September 2016. Plants make a garden. There are gardens constructed without plants, but the absence…
Artful Rainwater Design: A Case Study
by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker From Artful Rainwater Design by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker. Copyright©2015 by the authors. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Arizona State…
About the Weather, Job Satisfaction and “Maintenance” – A Season in Review
by Thomas Berger Mid-February It is an unusually warm February morning in Southern Maine: 50 degrees and the birds are singing, even some insects buzzing around, a bit scary for…
Designing with Maintenance in Mind
As we come to the end of a long season of garden maintenance, we’ve asked three ELA members to share three recommendations they want to keep in mind when they start designing for…