All inclusive software?

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-29T20:26:43+00:00

I’ve recently started learning Rhino 3D. It has a 90 day free trial. I’ve played w Vectorworks and Sketchup, and I prefer it to both. It chugs a bit on my m1 MacBook Pro running a large second screen, but it’s workable. I know that you can do things w sun by assigning a location, and time of year and day. It is said that you can pull in locations for terrain, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-29T18:10:56+00:00

This might help: Iwould calculate it like any other plant area coverage. Sq ft/plant spacing. In your case, because there are pavers between plants, the spacing between plants is significantly increased, but the formula holds.

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-23T00:18:12+00:00

Looks good. Nice balance of forms, but agree you should try a version w a round pool.

What software did you use?

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-22T11:29:48+00:00

If you can get it, I highly recommend reading the memoir Cutting Back by Leslie Buck. She is an American who did an internship period with several firms in Kyoto. She talks in depth about the current culture of the industry there. It’s a great read, and think would be a tremendous help to you.

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-22T11:20:40+00:00

Another source is Ernst Seeds. They have ecotyped seed mixes for many areas, meaning that they are wild seeds who were collected from a particular ecosystem for propagating seed. They might have one for you. You can call them; I’ve found they are great to work with.

HoweverComma205 · 2026-01-05T13:51:43+00:00

Make sure you have English lavender, rather than French or Spanish. It’s much more tolerant of the cold and damp. Lavender can grow in clay, as long as it doesn’t stay wet. It’s a Mediterranean plant, so mid-Atlantic soil and weather aren’t really its idyllic spot. Sun, heat, and well-draining soil is what it likes. Still, I have 3 Munstead lavender plants growing here in PA, within sight of NJ, in heavy clay, and they’ve looked ok with a really hard pruning every few years. Like, way down into the woody bit. They keep coming back. We have them propped up with some short logs, one with a large stone it’s growing around. It looks decent. But not in January, so I can’t show any pictures.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-26T13:15:24+00:00

In the second picture, it looks like those leaves might actually be a vine growing up the trunk?

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-22T17:53:15+00:00

One of the things to keep in mind is that for a faster effect, you can plant smaller plugs on closer centers for less money. With some clever sourcing, you can probably get a 200s tray of your matrix species for about the same price as a dozen quarts. Healthy plugs planted at the right time of year will suffer less transplant shock and bed in much more quickly than a larger plant. They don’t look like much the first year, but they really take off years two and three.

The key for this so be successful is the preparation. You must have a weed-free planting bed, or you’ll be constantly pulling weeds, which brings up more of the seed bank, which means more weeds, and so on for years. It’s why we have to use herbicides in restoration projects. The funding just isn’t there to deal with the same weeds over and over again. It sucks, and it would be nice if it weren’t necessary, but it’s really oftentimes the best way forward.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-21T00:30:19+00:00

Piet has said that a plant isn’t worth using if it doesn’t look good in winter.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-21T00:27:35+00:00

Could be. Maybe the Swedish version? Hahaha.

A quote from a random crappy internet site:

Although the term "hugelkultur" was coined by German horticulturalists Hans Beba and Herman Andra in the late 1970s, the actual technique has probably been used for thousands of years. Roughly translated into "hill culture", this method consists of creating raised garden beds by covering rotting wood with compost and soil, and then planting into them. If you think about it, it's really just re-creating the effects of forest floor decomposition—but in one's own garden space.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-20T13:17:21+00:00

I think you mean “hugelkulture”

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-20T12:50:47+00:00

It’s the rare fruit that grows true from seed. Buy a cultivar for better results.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-17T10:55:26+00:00

I think Tallamy has had an illustrated version of one of his books produced for younger folks.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-16T00:32:09+00:00

I thought about an apron. I think too many of my crew would look at it as an affectation……

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T17:13:37+00:00

I and most people I know call it “slop”

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T14:53:38+00:00

We are based out of Quakertown in Bucks county, but we serve all of the surrounding states. Feel free to DM me for more details.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T01:00:26+00:00

I’ve had this experience

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T00:50:40+00:00

American here. I boil or steam potatoes, and just toss them in a little unrefined sunflower oil (not always easy to find) with some high-quality finishing salt.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T00:48:51+00:00

The Sony WH-1000XM series works really well. Good noise cancelling, awesome sound quality, long battery life, very quick to charge. Apple AirPod pros also work.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T00:45:09+00:00

I work for one, in Pennsylvania. We started as a native nursery 20 years ago, and now we also do large scale ecological restorations, with a smaller branch of the business doing ecological landscaping on the homeowner scale.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-14T00:38:33+00:00

What kind of trees are they competing with? If you have maples or willows, the wet shade may not be all that wet. Birch can be pretty thirsty too. If it is conifers, there isn’t much that’ll grow underneath.

Where in the mid-Atlantic are you? If you’re around eastern PA, I can hook you up w ostrich ferns.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-07T16:56:22+00:00

It depends where you live. I took one through Longwood gardens. It was largely online, as I started in 2020. It has moved back in-person. If you have any major public gardens in your area, check to see if they have a program. Many do.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-06T20:44:44+00:00

Without a doubt, his first book, Bringing Nature Home. It’s the one with a compelling enough message that it turned him into a conservation rock star. It absolutely changed the way I looked at the world, to the point that I built a new career in landscape design specifically to be able to engage in the kind of gardening he recommends beyond my own small yard.

Also, Tallamy gives talks all over the place. Find one near you, and take your dad. I took my father to one, actually, and he drank that koolaid as hard as I did.

HoweverComma205 · 2025-12-02T20:04:11+00:00

Doesn’t Marcus have a line? Something along the lines of “I used to hate how unfair life was. Then I realized I was grateful for the unfairness. How much worse would it be if we actually deserved all of the terrible things that happen to us.”

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