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Home Grown | Landscape Architecture Magazine
A mid-Atlantic design/build firm is converting homeowners into native plant advocates, one lawn at a time. By Jared Brey Refugia specializes in transforming lawns into pollinator-friendly habitats. Photo by Kayla Fell for Refugia. Jeff Lorenz stood under the mid-June sun at FDR Park, monitoring the final touches on his company’s exhibit for the Philadelphia Flower Show. The exhibit space, ordinarily an asphalt parking lot, had been covered in mulch and lined with displays, all in the final moments of construction. Teams of employees scuttled about in branded T-shirts—“REFUGIA: Functional Design for the American Landscape”—placing trees, shrubs, grasses, moss, and flowers in clumps for planting the next day. The plants were…
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Made for the Marsh | Landscape Architecture Magazine
A pair of landscape designers come up with a profitable idea for the land-starved Louisiana coast. By Timothy A. Schuler Larix Underground’s floating planter is developed to be accessible in several areas, including alongside docks or even in the open up water. Picture courtesy Larix Underground. Like several inhabitants of southern Louisiana, the Indigenous people of Grand Bayou Village, found amongst the southernmost reaches of Plaquemines Parish in the Mississippi River Delta and obtainable only by boat, dwell with the different consequences of coastal land loss. A crucial problem impacting the community’s skill to subsist in its ancestral place—a landscape that the moment was densely forested but that is now…
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Jennifer Miree Cope Announces Publication of Her Latest Landscaping Tips in Disrupt Magazine
Jennifer Miree Cope shares beneficial gardening ideas in “Discovering Your Eco-friendly Thumb” to aid everyone delight in the splendor of a healthy back garden. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, Usa, February 1, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Placing in several hours of really hard get the job done and paying barrows whole of cash at the nursery just to enjoy vegetation fall short to prosper can make the average newbie gardener want to give up. Fortuitously, Jennifer Miree Cope is listed here to notify every aspiring gardener that they can realize success at just one of the healthiest hobbies on the world. Numerous people today want to acquire a environmentally friendly thumb but discover that…
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Family Gathering | Landscape Architecture Magazine
A Chicago garden phone calls a Black neighborhood pushed to the margins back together once again. By Zach Mortice MKSK’s design for the neighborhood garden extends a Mauricio Ramirez mural onto the floor airplane. Impression courtesy MKSK. Considering the fact that 2009, a vacant ton turned local community backyard garden on the 4600 block of Winthrop Avenue in Chicago’s Uptown community has commemorated the Winthrop Avenue Spouse and children, the descendants of a team of Black households who for significantly of the 20th century ended up confined to this 1 block of the predominantly white community. “Everybody who lived on the block [was] not always blood-connected, but we ended up…
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Game Changer | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Shorter, wilder courses and ample room for habitat are just some of the transformations coming to golf. By Lisa Owens Viani Ephemeral drainages will be restored in Larsen Meadow, the former back nine of San Geronimo Golf Course. Photo by Erica Williams, courtesy Trust for Public Land. One outcome of the last housing boom was a glut of golf courses built to market new suburban developments. As courses have closed or sat vacant, planners and communities have debated their next best use. But despite declines, there has also been a bit of a rebound in the industry over the past six years, with new demand for shorter courses with less…
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Jacksonville Steps Ahead | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Florida’s Emerald Path strides toward a more walkable future. By Margaret Shakespeare The path will develop connections to the h2o and present prospects for character-centered participate in. Courtesy Groundwork Jacksonville. McCoys Creek Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, is a big thoroughfare that progressively is closed to targeted visitors mainly because of flooding, even after a regime afternoon shower. It’s one particular of lots of spots in the town that, because of to growing older infrastructure like undersized pipes and inadequate drainage—particularly in more mature residential neighborhoods—now encounters long-term flooding gatherings. To handle these infrastructure demands and help lessen the city’s reliance on vehicular transportation, in 2019, the Town of Jacksonville formally…
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