tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post3228426684651949712..comments2024-03-24T12:55:07.300-04:00Comments on grounded design by Thomas Rainer: Spontaneous Gardens: The Next Frontier in Green Design?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13805682623764800983noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-91544382617999046312012-09-05T11:16:32.111-04:002012-09-05T11:16:32.111-04:00I have recently discovered your blog (thanks to Ga...I have recently discovered your blog (thanks to Garden Designer's Roundtable) and am loving the questions and observations that drive your design. As a designer trained specifically in Sustainable Design (less sure what that means these days), I am loving the questions and less willing to provide the answers. In my own gardens when spontaneous vegetation arises, I ask the question- why here? and sometimes that evolves or devolves into a conversation with the plant and the site and then my design becomes judicious editing at best. Thanks again for your thought provoking blogging.Lucienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-47948165162871515152012-04-22T18:25:33.967-04:002012-04-22T18:25:33.967-04:00My husband is intent on purchasing chemical weed k...My husband is intent on purchasing chemical weed killer for the front lawn, but it's so small, I'm all about hand-pulling. Besides, there are sweet little blue flowers appearing randomly.<br /><br />Today he mowed it (ridiculous since it's not even growing) and I'm trying to figure out how to talk him out of the weed killer. Already told him last season that I prefer dandelions over breast cancer; he seems to have forgotten that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-53567105415013629732011-03-30T06:38:32.108-04:002011-03-30T06:38:32.108-04:00Oh, thank you. I can now call my lawn a 'Free...Oh, thank you. I can now call my lawn a 'Freedom Lawn' which it is and has been. Released from chemicals and just a mowing here and there, the ajuga flourishes along with a bit of bluegrass, fescue, clover, and dare I say it, crabgrass. Freedom grass. I will give you credit for the term.Layaneehttp://ledgeandgardens.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-3459949833618552652010-04-20T05:15:10.338-04:002010-04-20T05:15:10.338-04:00A more-sustainable garden has fewer inputs and few...A more-sustainable garden has fewer inputs and fewer outputs than a less-sustainable garden.Practice rainwater harvesting. Water should be collected from roofs and pavements, stored in gardens and infiltrated into the soil, slowly.Making compost should be part of the routine in every garden, even if it is no larger than a window box. Items which cannot be composted domestically (eg wood) should be composted municipally.<br /><a href="http://www.ictinsite.com/" rel="nofollow">Cheap Web Design</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483585300106347494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-62890135354424445572010-04-14T17:43:47.020-04:002010-04-14T17:43:47.020-04:00Hi Thomas,
I have to admit that I'm loosening...Hi Thomas,<br /><br />I have to admit that I'm loosening up, but only because I can't keep up the meticulous approach I've had since I began to garden 'seriously'.. being a Type A and a plant geek. I've always photographed my gardens - small plots, both of them - for articles and columns, and felt the pressure for the garden to be ready for a photo op on any given day. <br /><br />I'd assume as a landscape architect that you'd be a 'control freak.' <br /><br />Enjoying what you have to say here - pondering the notion of becoming more spontaneous. Although the jury is out, I may just be getting to the point of letting spontaneity into my life as a garden-maker.<br />p.s....thanks for the 'faves' on Blotanical. AliceAlice Joycehttp://alicesgardentravelbuzz.comnoreply@blogger.com