tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57436960147621690532024-02-19T09:49:03.112-04:00Languid*Lovelylandscape encompasses everthing ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-31136194878851356992012-03-10T17:02:00.001-04:002012-03-29T21:55:34.590-03:00gabions get hip<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The humble gabion is having its day. Gabions are wire or steel cages filled with rip-rap or other stone. Long an engineering standard as cheap, reliable retaining walls, as of late they've been commonly used to stabilize highway embankments and other industrial landscapes. Suddenly hip, they are popping up in contemporary residential landscapes, and in the hands of designers they are quite lovely. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.blasengardens.com/res/mod/WrightViolich/Stinson02.html">Stinson Beach House</a> by <a href="http://www.blasengardens.com/">Blasen Landscape Architecture</a> is a lovely example of a contemporary landscape that balances clean, simple lines with softness and warmth. I love the rich materiality of the built features juxtaposed with the soft texture and movement of the grasses. Although this project takes place in the California landscape, this style would transfer quite nicely to coastal Nova Scotia.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-1291576446588208372012-02-12T10:01:00.000-04:002012-03-10T16:59:09.459-04:00the mid-winter reflections of a landscape architect...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lately I've been thinking about how this blog reflects my state of mind, my pursuits and my current areas of interest. I've considered how it's evolved over time, sometimes with a focus on design in general, sometimes with a more urban agriculture focus and recently, perhaps, with more of a focus on landscape architecture. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always had a voracious appetite for learning and new things and I'm sure that is being reflected here. Sometimes I feel like I need to reign it all in and focus on one thing at a time, but that's really just not me. I'm a generalist and I think that's a really nice quality for a landscape architect. I once heard someone say that engineers need to know a lot about a few specific things and landscape architects need to know a bit about everything, which is probably why we are such great project managers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finally come to accept that my range of interests - art, gardening, dance, herbal medicine, agriculture, fashion, food, travel and on and on - inform my process and designs and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contribute to my wholeness as a designer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It's about time I embraced that!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps. This photo makes me so very happy. I'm dreaming of a peaceful home studio with such beautiful light...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I currently have a bit of an obsession with cabins built on outcrops, as you can see from my <a href="http://pinterest.com/angedean/">Pinterest</a> board <i><a href="http://pinterest.com/angedean/cabin/">Cabin</a> </i>(have I mentioned how much I love Pinterest?). I came across photos of this <a href="http://www.contemporist.com/2009/01/27/mollys-cabin-by-agathom/">cabin</a> last night and almost went out of my mind. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So apparently it has been some time since I gave an update on the Bloomfield Community Greenhouse; the last time I posted on the greenhouse (scroll down), these babies were just seedlings. Now they are gorgeously gorgeous and ready to eat! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to the holidays, our plants were looking a bit leggy. Perhaps due to the reduced light levels, maybe due to a lack of carbon dioxide. We made some adjustments, a fan for one, and this along with increasing day length seem to have made the difference. A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t a time when produce has all but disappeared from the farmers' market, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's quite wonderful to enjoy a freshly picked salad of local, organic greens. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-20873869769311294232011-12-23T23:50:00.000-04:002011-12-27T19:50:23.156-04:00integrated landscapes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Australian residence by <a href="http://www.cplusc.com.au/index.php/projects/bowen_mountain">CplusC</a> architectural workshop illustrates a seamless transition between interior and exterior space. I really appreciate how the pergola is incorporated into the structure of the house; the steal beam runs between interior and exterior structures. So often landscape is an afterthought to the architecture, is a divergent style or not at all considered and in all of these cases looks the part. It's nice to envision a world where design professionals - architects, landscape architects - work together throughout a project to create a cohesive design.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised, here are a a couple of photos of the first seedlings to inaugurate the Bloomfield Community Greenhouse. It's now been three weeks since the first seeds were planted and the photos show the seedlings after one and two weeks. I'm so very happy that they are coming along so well and can't wait to enjoy my first harvest of tender, baby greens</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel pretty lucky and grateful to have been selected as a participant in the first year of the Bloomfield Community Greenhouse. What a great opportunity to grow food throughout the long, cold Canadian winter! Also a lovely boost for the spirit - the greenhouse was a cozy 42 degrees celsius when I stopped in today (we're still calibrating details like temperature regulation).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Features of this passive-solar design include solar-panels, re-purposed barn boards, solar hot-water heating that circulates under the interior beds, an interior rain barrel, a community message board and a vermicomposter. I'm eager to meet the buider,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #373737; font-weight: 300; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-weight: 300; line-height: 24px;">Zak Miller of<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"> <a href="mailto:fullyclebuilders@gmail.com" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full Cycle Builders</a></span>, to learn more about the technical components of the building.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I planted seeds about a week ago and they are just starting to emerge. I am so excited to get started with a new crop just when the gardening season would usually be slowing down. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be back soon with pics of the new babies!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-33672497791597275742011-10-30T12:20:00.000-03:002011-10-30T12:20:24.874-03:00garlic planting tutorial (it's time!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right about now, at least in the temperate north, it is the perfect time to plant your garlic. Here is a simple guide to next season's bounty:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few pics from a late summer stroll up the path behind my cabin shortly before I left Oregon. Magic?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-40513226792741225892011-10-28T21:35:00.001-03:002011-10-28T21:40:39.718-03:00hot hot hot!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took this photo of my cayenne peppers on my last day on the farm in Oregon. It's the first place I've lived that I could really grow these spicy little heat-lovers. I'm now home in Halifax, NS and the lovely fall we had been having has turned bitterly cold! Just thinking about that long hot summer takes away a bit of the chill...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-61277494185919954302011-09-17T18:48:00.001-03:002011-10-30T12:30:08.755-03:00st. john's salve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">I spent the other night making a st. John's wort salve - simply melting beeswax into oil infused with st. johns wort, calendula, comfrey and echinacea. It has a beautiful, rich, red tone and would be great for burns, nerve damage and all-purpose skin healing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm feeling inspired to put together a line of pure, plant-infused body products. I can't wait until I have a bit of land to grow all of the herbs myself...</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-81857350206992577852011-08-27T01:53:00.000-03:002011-08-27T01:53:49.540-03:00repurposed patio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHq33Xp0xE1hsFdmy5z2Fcg1x4wgtsUGqRwlwNbrfIKp2GK99geuxMFD-cOzvGjMA5ZTUaDP5gqKVircw2BdYOBRbcEv3G-PNQiiObbpm807S9TaBXF_MrKeikOxLuWAol89RvHrYhx4/s1600/patio8-L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHq33Xp0xE1hsFdmy5z2Fcg1x4wgtsUGqRwlwNbrfIKp2GK99geuxMFD-cOzvGjMA5ZTUaDP5gqKVircw2BdYOBRbcEv3G-PNQiiObbpm807S9TaBXF_MrKeikOxLuWAol89RvHrYhx4/s640/patio8-L.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see these old concrete blocks everywhere - at the curb, in parking garages, there are currently several in the loft of the cabin I am renting. This patio shows a great way to put a common, resource-heavy product to re-use. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello there! It has been awhile. I have been away from home for over 8 months now and traveling without my laptop. What started out as a 3 month trip to Ecuador, turned into Nicaragua and Costa Rica and then a 9 week internship in Oregon and 4.5 months later here I still am in this lovely little village in the wilds of Oregon. Since the internship in herbal medicine and farming I've been staying in this lovely little octagonal cabin on an old farm at the very edge of the forest. I'll be soon heading home to Halifax, NS but I'd like to share some of my travels, and my life at the moment. Here are a few snaps:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have been very delinquent with my posting - but the garden is still going strong. I have been off on a little adventure which I will share with you as soon as things calm down just a bit!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-55479118248069695772010-08-24T15:59:00.000-03:002012-03-29T21:55:23.286-03:00plant combinations: cabbage and marigolds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bringing things back inside ... I love air plants and I love pods so these are perfect! From Michael McDowell's Etsy shop </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/mudpuppy">Mudpuppy</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-90144647325724341442010-08-18T13:49:00.003-03:002011-11-10T22:38:01.741-04:00garlic time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When talking about how to use the borage that has taken over the communal herb garden, my friend Eileen suggested I put the flowers in ice cubes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so I did. These sweet blue flowers that I often nibble on are the perfect addition to a gin and tonic. I also wonder if the cucumber-taste of the leaves might infuse gin nicely</span>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The basil is finally ready and I made my first batch of pesto this season. I used this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://languidlovely.blogspot.com/2009/09/pesto-perfetto.html">recipe</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which I fine-tuned last summer. Sooo delicious!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743696014762169053.post-86629809751868737332010-07-14T16:57:00.001-03:002011-11-07T23:40:07.383-04:00eggplant and potatoes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I harvested these gorgeous potatoes last night. They were delicious with fresh dill, butter, salt and pepper. I've been hilling my potatoes up with compost and exploring gently with my hands to unearth potatoes near the surface...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I'm also growing eggplant for the first time. Somehow the fruit just snuck up on me as I discovered them with delight a few days ago. These attractive plants caught my eye and I picked up a white variety at the local farmers market. I've chosen to grow them on my sunny SWest facing deck in a pot rather than transplant them into my gardening plot. I'm also growing watermelon and tomato on the 4th-storey deck and they're all thriving.</span></div>
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