Landscape Architecture In the News
A sampling of recent press coverage of landscape architecture. Keyword terms are noted by ">>>" and "<<<" marks.

SUSTAINABLE GARDENING TIPS HELP THE ENVIRONMENT
Austin American-Statesman
Date: 04/11/08
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< and the United States Botanic Garden are leading the effort to develop the first voluntary national standards for sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Initiative aims to take green building standards outside and has already developed more than 200 strategies for creating sustainable backyards, parks and other properties. These are tips from the initiative that you can use in your landscape. To learn more, go to www.sustainablesites.org. 1. Avoid harmful chemicals. Do: Use compost to reduce fertilizer use.

TEN GREAT LEAFY GETAWAYS TUCKED AWAY in the BIG CITY
USA Today
Date: 04/11/08
…executive vice president and CEO of the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< (asla.org), shares her list of favorite urban parks with Kathy Baruffi for USA TODAY.

ADDITION TO HOSPITAL HEALING GARDEN TAKES FLIGHT
Palm Beach Post
Date: 04/10/08
…Excellence from the Florida Chapter of the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< in 2007. Roy-Fisher's butterfly addition includes day lilies, dune sunflowers, dwarf pomegranate, lantana, passion flowers, pentas, salvia, and variegated ginger. "All those are butterfly plants and are planted specifically in that area," Roy-Fisher said. "Most you can find in a garden center. A lot are more towards xeriscaping. "The butterfly garden needed to blend, and not compete, with the other elements."

LANDSCAPING & GARDENING 2008                              
Lewiston Sun Journal
Date: 04/11/08
In fact, the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< reports that today's homeowners are thinking bigger than basic outdoor kitchens and building entire great rooms, including living rooms, dining rooms and full kitchens. Just as they would when decorating indoors, homeowners are incorporating the latest trends in these new outdoor living areas. Give plants from the past a new future In a world filled with what seems like unlimited choices, gardeners are finding that some traditional varieties of plants are disappearing.

LACMA PALM GARDEN MORE THAN LANDSCAPE                            
L.A. TIMES
Date: 04/11/08
That was the vision executed by >>>landscape architect<<< Paul Comstock of ValleyCrest in Calabasas. Some palms are in the ground but most are in large wooden above ground, boxes. "We tried to create a museum collection of palm trees much like visiting a Picasso art show," Comstock said, "not to replicate a long-range environment." Some are there for the short term. About 40 will be rotated out--those onsite now are the winter collection and around early May, the summer collection will be "hung." One showpiece tree, a Chilean wine palm that Comstock said is an "old soul," has come a long way and lived a long…

CALL for URBAN ASSAULT, or: PLEASE HELP BILL THOMPSON, FASLA
Pruned
Date: 04/11/08
…we read in a few months' time of a registered >>>landscape architect<<< designing public spaces that are conducive to such high-octane urban exploration? Could this be an un-ironic attempt at injecting vitality into the built environment or just another lame attempt at co-opting subculture elements, distilling and making them palatable to the New Bourgeois of the New Condominiumed City? Or is this RLA really working with municipal bureaucrats and private developers to specify time-saver anti-parkour construction standards and details, similar to anti-skateboarding strategies and anti-teen sonic devices?

CLEANED OUT
High Timber Times
Date: 04/11/08