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Readings: Piet Oudolf & Matthew Pottage
Piet Oudolf, the sought-after Dutch horticulturalist and landscape designer known worldwide for his work and leadership in the New...
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streetwalker - saratoga 02: fruit trees in public spaces
Throughout my career as a public servant…from my time as a volunteer advising municipalities, a leader of a community nonprofit...
6 min read


Fire & Ice
2022 Chelsea Flower Show, London Mentioning the word “fire” to any Californian will garner a response that paints a vastly different...
3 min read


Landscape Uses for Ornamental Plants
To take the mystery out of how landscape architects classify ornamental plants for their use in designs, I thought it would help to...
16 min read


PSA #1: Trees still need water over the summer and fall, just not as much as you might think
Autumn 2021. California is drought stricken. Wildfires seem endless. Fire season. Our state is at the precipice, where we are...
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A Norther
A Norther, Les Miserable, Indian Summer, and Pineapple Express are names imbued with meaning.
3 min read


Tagging California Places
Graffiti artists and taggers are a discerning lot. They consciously look at the landscape for opportunities to mark their territory,...
3 min read


Hidden in Plain Sight: the John Nicholas Trail's Cultural Landscape
Living on the San Francisco Bay Peninsula in the 70s and 80s meant that the Santa Cruz Coastal Mountains were not far away. Despite...
3 min read


The Sun King Also Rises in the 21st Century
Admittedly, this might be a stretch of the imagination, but stay with me as I walk along this path. It is a meandering one, but there...
5 min read


A Brief Time in Barcelona
What I thought I knew vs. what I experienced now I'm amused that I have to reconcile my childhood understanding of Spain. Children's...
1 min read
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