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Picture this: you're planning a small woodland or a green corridor in a new development. Bats are on the radar—maybe there's a protected species nearb...
I spent a morning last winter standing in a fog-drenched eucalyptus grove near the California coast, watching water drip from leaf tips and run down t...
You've got a timber stand—maybe 20 acres of mixed hardwoods, maybe a pine plantation that's grown too thick. And somewhere in your county's habitat pl...
You've designed a scent sequence that unfolds when rain hits specific plants. First, a burst of petrichor from a dry soil layer. Then, a minty note fr...
You spend months modeling airflow, running CFD simulations, choosing the perfect alignment. The thermal inversion corridor is supposed to funnel cool ...
Let me tell you what happens when you skip arboreal spatial planning. A friend in Portland planted a gorgeous Japanese maple three feet from her porch...
A developer once planted 40 London plane trees along a new boulevard. Five years later, half were dead or stunted. The root collars were buried six in...
You have spent weeks perfecting the vertical layers—tall oaks for canopy, serviceberry for understory, ferns for ground cover. The client walks the si...
Solar glint studies are precise. You model the sun's path, the panel angles, the observer's eye—everything lines up for a sequence that lasts maybe th...
Every landscape architect I know has been burned by a specie list that looked perfect on paper but turned into a maintenance nightmare two seasons in....