trees

'Lost' by David Wagoner...( a poem about forests and more)

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Lost  by David Wagoner photo by Jan Johnsen (NYBG - pinus bungeana) Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside yo…

quotes

Personal Space and Privacy - Japanese Vs. American

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In my graduate Landscape Design Studio at Columbia University, I ask students to select an excerpt from the assigned b…

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Flower Power - A Story about NYC and flowers by George Reis

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George Reis  is a student of mine at Columbia University and he also works for NYU as their Landscape Supervisor (he …

serenity gardens

'Flowers became his Cure' - A Healing Garden

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photo by Jan Johnsen In 2006, the National Gardening Association in South Burlington, Vermont (I used to be a garden d…

serenity gardens

Matt's Description of a Healing, Serenity Garden

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Matt Berger was my high school intern for a season...and now he is a sophomore studying landscape architecture at Unive…