Landscaping & Design/Expert Profile

Expertise

As a licensed Landscape Architect, I can answer general questions about style and design, ideas and suggestions for site amenities, larger site-planning issues, or recreation and park design. IF YOU JUST WANT A PLANT SUGGESTION GO HERE: http://www.growit.com/PlantInfo/LandScape.htm I prefer you ask somebody else why your petunias are not as perky as they should be...I'd LOVE to tell you how can use those petunias to increase your home's value!

Experience in the area

Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ALSA.org); Past clients have been mostly contractors, developers and local civil engineering/architecture firms, plus the occasional homeowner. Currently, I design recreational facilities for the National Park Service (DOI). I am located in the dry Great Basin area (Greater Nevada/Utah), so the use of landscape materials OTHER than plants is emphasized. As a licensed Landscape Architect on the East and West Coasts, I have been in practice over 20 years.

Organizations

ASLA (ASLA.org)

Education/Credentials

BSLA in Landscape Architecture, 1989 Many additional seminars, educational venues, and classes (both taught & attended)

Awards and Honors

Best Multifamily project, 1993 Best Model Home Landscaping, 1993

What do you like about this subject?

There are few other items that add value to a home so quickly (Money Magazine - 4/06), and is just so much fun!

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

To share this design knowledge with the land owner, developer, even the renter - after all, aren't we all just "borrowing" our land from the future? You're not taking it with you (O.K.; maybe you get a little 2x6 square with a handsome tombstone, someday)

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Its the FIRST oldest profession (Or so God told Adam...) Actually, Adam was asked to just take care of the place for a little while.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

I prefer "hardscape" over plants; without good structure, plants are just decoration. What makes a great place unique is not the plants a designer has chosen. Lots of "designers" start with their favorite group of plants, and put them in every design.