Moss Makes a No-Care Lawn – New York Times

DEEP GREEN David Benner is an advocate of what he calls “the moss approach” to lawn maintenance.

 
By JANCEE DUNN
Published: May 1, 2008

Solebury, Pa.

Moss, which grows fast and hugs the ground, prevents soil erosion. Its density repels weeds. Deer do not snack on it. It can be walked [...]

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American Society of Landscape Architects: Welcome Annotated

A green roof replaces traditional roofing with a lightweight, living system of soil, compost, and plants.

The plants–and the dirt and gravel that hold them–filter rainwater and some of its pollutants. The plants produce oxygen that help clean the air. A green roof reduces a building’s heating and cooling [...]

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Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated

Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts.

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A quick word about these two images, for they are hilarious. The landscape [...]

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Landscape/Architecture Firms Growing Closer | News | Architectural Record Annotated
By > Dianna Dilworth >
Renzo Piano’s design called for a green roof that would essentially lift a piece of the park and place it atop the building: seven earth mounds that would serve as a research facility.
As architects attempt ever more [...]

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When the Garden Designs the House – New York Times Annotated

Multimedia
Slide Show
The Home Aquatic

Partly by chance, Mr. Browne, 60, a managing director of the Tweedy, Browne Company, a New York investment firm, stumbled on an approach to construction that has been advocated [...]

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