Landscaping (possibly a picture thread)

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I work on a street that is full of business complexes. Every building is surrounded by flower beds. Every parking lot is dotted with trees. And every complex backs up to a manmade lake.

Over all, I think it's very pretty. The trees are full of colorful birds & blossoms. And I much prefer this to seas of lifeless parking lots. But at the same time, you know that it is all fake (not fake trees, but everything is planned).

Do you think the day will come that our (humankind's) only contact with nature will be in a planned environment? Is that necessarily wrong?

Or, on a lighter note, just post pix of landscaping.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.asylum-entertainment.com/2gfx/prev2logo.gif

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.residentie.net/~schram-12/ambasz.jpg http://www.archcenter.ru/eng/council/ambasz/Ambasz-Fukuoka-02a.jpg http://www.archcenter.ru/eng/council/ambasz/Ambasz-Fukuoka-06a.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stpete.org/images/022400.jpg
Also see: Landscaping by big roads.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cavant-garde.com/images/koons2.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

my father in law is a landscape architect. he's got the shit down.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, shit's very important for gardening, etc.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.noguchi.org/images/unesco1.jpg

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it a cow?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks more like a giraffe head to me. But I don't think it's supposed to be either.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone have a rock garden?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend has just bought a house and she wants to fill the garden with plants so she has to do no work on it, and can source local natives cheaply from work. I am so excited by this. In a way I think that landscaped or planned environments can be like zoos for plants that have lost their natural habitats.

The only concern I have is that often landscaping and civic planting uses a limited range of 'natives' some of which thrive in places they did not naturally occur, or which are cultivars, while locally indigenous plants are overlooked. Eg pohutukawas which are beautiful but are kind of out of place in the South Island, etc.

Not that there isn't a place for plants like flowering cherries, leucuopogons, tulips, just that care should be taken.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

isadora, I thought you meant she was hiring some native workers on the cheap. Where I live, you always see Mexicans working on the landscaping at the business complexes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://line.nfi.no/nfi/cinematek/2000/bilder/marienbad.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/tooting/images/flowers_zen_stgeorges.jpg

I have always wanted a garden like this. But actually having a yard would be a good start.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/Pics/cascade-arial.jpg

http://www.wesleyan.edu/slides/AH244/Lecture21/if000000.jpg

http://www.mikejs.com/pics/derbyshire/thm/24_chatsworth_hedge_maze_zoom.jpg http://www.mikejs.com/pics/derbyshire/thm/23_chatsworth_hedge_maze.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard, what the hell are those pictures you posted upthread?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I was just about to ask the same thing!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

a government building in fukuoka, japan. by emilio ambasz.

the building was really needed and the only site was the only greenspace left in the city.

it's like a hi-tech hanging gardens.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's fucking creepy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

you should be an architectural critic.

oh, wait, you are!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's creepy. It's nice, kind of elven.

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the Japanese are elves.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Meaning Momus is Elrond...no, wait, he'd be an Elf-friend, so he's Frodo. No wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.biyahero.net/images/sonyas/meleenreading.jpg
http://www.backpack.co.nz/garden1.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/feeder_goldfish/.cv/feeder_goldfish/Sites/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2002-08-10%2001.19.01%20-0700/ImageIMG_2183.jpg-thumb_141_106.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 12 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

I pulled out weeds. Cut down a bunch of crap in the way. Cleared out the leaves.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/12-1-4.jpg

Now what the fuck do I do? Good thing it's 105º and in a severe drought or that garden would be in the street by now.

― pplains, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:24 (thirteen years ago)

Kind of a fan of Walter and Skyler White's yard, but I don't live in New Mexico.

http://ryaninamerica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/breaking-bad-walter-white-house.jpg?w=640&h=480

― pplains, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:26 (thirteen years ago)

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