Unclipped Hedge

Many plants will form a natural hedge when planted close together. Obviously more natural looking. Not necessarily more beautiful or even more healthy for the plants.

The clipped hedge

The clipped hedge has long been used as a way to make a wall from plants. They can be any shape and can assume any shape with much more ease and at a much lower cost (in time anyway) than structures.

The Allee

The Allee is the cut through the fabric of the forest. Or the shaded processional corridor through the open clearing. The Allee can be natural growth or pleached like a hedge or pollarded.

The Canopy

The canopy is the ceiling for landscape space. It sets a new lower level for the sky and touches off the feeling of intimate immensity, also known as the sublime.

Plants Model: The Grove

The grove comes in many forms. Informal organic to formal grid. Size can alter of course. Note how close together the trees are in most cases. There is no minmum limit to how close together you can plant trees. Trust me. Observe if you doubt how nature does it.

Readings group 3, 4, 5 and 6

You really aught to make it a goal to read everything on the readings list, sigh.
Eventually you really should. But below are the ones that you are required to read and submit questions for. Enjoy! This is a sampling of a wide history of Landscape Architecture dating back to the birth of modernist Landscape Architecture with guys like James Rose.

Readings due for readings session three.

1. Goldfinger, The Sensation of Space

2. Condon, A Designed Landscape Space Typology

3. Olin, L. "What I do when I can do it: Representation in recent work." 

Readings due for readings session four.

1. Cardasis, D. (1996). "Imaginary Gardens with Real Frogs." 

2. Burle Marx, R.. "A Garden Style in Brazil to Meet Contemporary Needs with Emphasis on the Paramount Value of Native Plants."

3. Arnold, Henry. Trees in Urban Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold York, N.Y. pp. 47 -76

Readings due for readings session five.

1. Thiel, P. “Processional Architecture.” 

2. Thiel, Philip.  "A Sequence-Experience Notation". 

3. Walker, P. “Classicism, Modernism, and Minimalism in the Landscape”. 

Readings due for readings session six.

1.  Rose, J. "Freedom in the Garden: A Contemporary Approach in Landscape Design."

2.  Rose, J. "Plants Dictate Garden Forms: Each has place as Material in Landscape Design." 

3.   Rose, J. "Articulate Form in Landscape Design: People and Materials Defeat Preconceived Pattern." 

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