One of the big challenges that we face with acceptance of the Silva Cell is cost-related. People love the concept and want to deliver big trees to their clients and site developments but don’t have the wiggle room on the budget for trees that they might for other site amenities. While the Silva Cell is… More
First off, I have to share some good news. Friday Follies the blog feature: 2 Friday Follies the original (tasty treats in the office): 1 Tasty treats are here! (BTW, the picture above is for blueberry cornbread skillet cake.) But, moving on to the business of the day: I just read about these nifty tree nutrition… More
Here’s our latest Silva Cell video (you can see our entire YouTube channel here) demonstrating how well the maple trees planted in Silva Cells in 2008 are doing. These trees, installed at the Athlete’s Village in Vancouver, are from one of our biggest installations to date. Each tree received, on average, 700 cubic feet of… More
One of the lesser-known applications for the Silva Cell is what we call “on-structure” — in other words, built on a pre-existing structure, such as a roof or balcony. In the case of the Lincoln Center Barclay Capital Grove, the Silva Cells are being used to grow a thriving bosque of trees on top of… More
For this week’s edition of Friday Follies I’m focusing on the work of Meyer Wells, a design firm recently featured in the New York Times. Meyer Wells makes custom furniture and design pieces from trees that have been felled due to development, disease or weather. Their tagline is “furniture with modern roots” — har har!… More
(Silva Cells along Bloor Street) Matthew Harris has written a great article over at blogTO, “Will Silva Cells Help Improve Toronto’s Urban Forest?“ His piece gives a good overview of the many projects we have happening in Toronto at the moment — Bloor Street, the Queensway, Sugar Beach, Mill Street, West Don Lands, and more,… More
I’m introducing a new featurette here, “Friday Follies.” This name is based on an aspirational office tradition to have tasty treats around on Fridays. It only lasted a day (I was the purveyor of said treats). Will this blog’s reinterpretation of Friday Follies have a longer tenure? I can’t say for sure. Only time will… More
Last month the City of San Francisco released its final draft of its Better Streets Plan, a design guideline to make the city safer, healthier, prettier, and easier to use. The Better Streets Plan was developed over a number of years after a Better Streets Policy was implemented by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor… More
For many people, I think the words “tree museum” are weighted with forlorn-ness from the Joni Mitchell hit, “Big Yellow Taxi.” Well, as it turns out, there is an actual tree museum in existence. Created by Swiss landscape architect Enzo Enea, it opened last month in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, near Zurich. Appropriately, the entire museum is outdoors,… More
Anyone out there headed to the ISA show this week? Our guys Peter MacDonagh and Al Key will be there (in booth #407), sweating it out with the other poor sods in the Windy City. If you’re interested in learning more about harvesting stormwater on-site, growing big street trees, and creating healthier communities using green… More
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