At Cal Poly, I had some inspirational professors. Omar Faruque was both a landscape architect and an architect, designed his own font, and his teenage children went to college alongside us. Joseph Ragsdale was young […]
Use of Color in the Landscape
Flower color evolved to fulfill a very specific purpose- to catch the eye of winged pollinators. These butterflies and moths, bees and wasps, beetles, flies, bats and birds all see the colors and know that […]
Focal Points in Landscape Composition
One of the things that drew me to landscape architecture, rather than say architecture, is the organic form. Nature’s designs always appealed to me more than man’s. But when massed together in a forest or […]
LEADING LINES – A Landscape Blog
Welcome to my first blog post! Although in time it may meander into other subjects, I think in getting this started that there’s a pretty good wealth of subject matter in how landscape design and […]