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Greenhouse Archives
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October 01, 2009. How Do Seeds Know Which Way Is Up? I'm not really a pundit, but I enjoy playing one on television:. Posted by Geoffrey Coffey. On 11:15 AM Comments. More posts by this author. May 19, 2009. To Build a Green Wall. The marriage of living plants and cold steel ranks among the most enjoyable elements of practicing landscape design in the San Francisco Bay Area. QUESTION: How to turn this liability - a barren and degraded slope - into a lush and attractive asset? The front of the wall is mad...
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Going In for Natural Solitude on Mount Wanda: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. Going In for Natural Solitude on Mount Wanda. July 28, 2004. Words bestow immortality: just as the book outlives its author, a name can outlast its human corollary. Many California landmarks bear the names of historic families, for example, providing a subtext that enhances our sense of local identity. The story behind each name can add even greater value, much like the bones of our ancestors that enrich the earth in deepening layers of fertility. Heed Muir's words...
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California native plants Archives
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October 01, 2009. How Do Seeds Know Which Way Is Up? I'm not really a pundit, but I enjoy playing one on television:. Posted by Geoffrey Coffey. On 11:15 AM Comments. More posts by this author. May 19, 2009. To Build a Green Wall. The marriage of living plants and cold steel ranks among the most enjoyable elements of practicing landscape design in the San Francisco Bay Area. QUESTION: How to turn this liability - a barren and degraded slope - into a lush and attractive asset? The front of the wall is mad...
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Environment Archives
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May 31, 2010. Shave Your Head to Save the Gulf of Mexico. By Jefferson Davis Hogg. The undersea gusher belching toxic petrochemicals into the Gulf of Mexico remains a disaster beyond all control. The corporate titans of BP merely flail their arms and shout obscenities at the hapless operators of their robotic submarines, while the PR monkeys in the back office issue optimistic press releases about Top Kills and Junk Shots, and the government stands by watching helplessly with no end in sight. On 12:29 PM...
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Native Carex and Iris in Miraloma Park: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. Native Carex and Iris in Miraloma Park. May 16, 2011. Score a point for the city planners: their new landscaping at the Stanford Heights Reservoir, in the San Francisco neighborhood of Miraloma Park uses locally appropriate native plants in simple bold strokes of panache. The design is a triumph of simplicity. Here, the design chooses two beautiful species as a foundation for all the plantings adjacent to sidewalks: Carex pansa. And Pacific Coast Iris. So many other l...
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Wood Archives: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. A Word on Modern Fences. May 10, 2011 10:16 AM. Urban living means density, and for city back yards that means fencing: we need clean lines of agreement on where my property ends and yours begins. Continue reading A Word on Modern Fences →. By Madroño Landscape Design Studio. February 2, 2011 2:56 PM. This high-tech lumber from Boulder(CO)-based Engineered Timber Resources. The resulting log is not only durable and hard-wearing, but also extremely stable. And its ...
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Retaining Walls Archives: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. To Build a Green Wall. January 13, 2011 6:42 AM. The marriage of living plants and cold steel ranks among the most enjoyable elements of practicing landscape design in the San Francisco Bay Area. QUESTION: How to turn this liability - a barren and degraded slope - into a lush and attractive asset? ANSWER: Save the slope with a green wall of perforated steel plates, coconut coir, and local native plants. Continue reading To Build a Green Wall →. Powered by Movable Type.
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Decks Archives: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. Deck as Bridge across Concrete Trench. March 9, 2011 6:25 AM. Landscape design can bridge otherwise impassable hurdles. Question: How to deal with this ugly yet necessary piece of engineering? This deck, with bench and arbor, is both a place to inhabit and to pass through. We cut a path in switchbacks up the slope from the point of contact with the platform, removed all french broom, fennel, and ivy from the hill, and replanted with native pinegrass, junegrass, an...
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A Word on Modern Fences: Native Plants through a Modern Lens at Madroño
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Native Plants through a Modern Lens. A Word on Modern Fences. May 10, 2011. Urban living means density, and for city back yards that means fencing: we need clean lines of agreement on where my property ends and yours begins. A beveled cap sitting proud 1" on both sides gives the fence a more finished appearance, and is fitted on the inside edge with low-voltage rail lights for a lovely accent of illumination in the evenings. All surface lumber was treated with Armstrong's transparent redwood stain, t...
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