Windthrow & Trees
By Albert Key While there is much empirical information on wind throw, ultimately, we do not know the exact stresses which wind puts on mature trees, as the only way…
By Albert Key While there is much empirical information on wind throw, ultimately, we do not know the exact stresses which wind puts on mature trees, as the only way…
“How much does the Silva Cell cost?” As you can imagine, this question comes up a lot; some of you have probably asked it yourselves. Designers, owners, and policy-makers all…
So, usually we’re talking about big trees on this blog. Today our partner Sarah K. Faiks, a sustainable landscape architect with the Kestrel Design Group, flips us on our ear…
Taz Loomans of Blooming Rock shared a poem called “The Contractor & The Architect,” written in 1954, that she found in a copy of Arizona Builder & Contractor Magazines while…
Another very handy post from Blooming Rock that I have to pass along, this time about how to pick the right tree for the right location from guest blogger Lysistrata Hall,…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E278d5d0z0 Neat video from the ASLA giving us a tour of the green roof on their Washington, D.C. headquarters. I wouldn’t mind a place like that to each lunch when…
Back in April we announced a partnership with HydroCAD that allows designers to easily model Silva Cells as a part of their overall stormwater management plan. Today, I thought I’d walk you…
I happened up this list of 10 of the world’s most incredible trees from Neatorama, and it really does amaze. The one pictured above, for example, was created (sculpted?!) by…
A twig from a tree grown in structural soil, on the left, exhibits fewer leaves, less growth, and less pigmentation than the twig from a tree grown in a suspended…
As someone who grew up in New York City but now lives in the city by the bay, the scarcity of movies that take place in San Francisco has always…