I read with interest the recent article in the Middlebury Campus on the increase in vandalism this year, as I completely agree. We’ve recently lost another tree to senseless idiocy, this one a rare Silverbell. We’d only planted this tree about a year and a half ago, and it was ripped up out of the […]…Continue Reading More Vandalism
Tag: landscape
Most Beautiful Parking Lot, Ever.
Is there a contest out there for most beautiful parking lot? I can’t seem to google one, but if one turns up, I’m nominating the the Mahaney Center for the Arts parking lot-the big one off of Porter Field Road. Monocultures are verboten in the arboricultural world, but this singular planting of ‘Snowdrift’ crabapple transforms […]…Continue Reading Most Beautiful Parking Lot, Ever.
More Art in the Landscape
While I’ve already proven my failure as an Art Critic, I still enjoy the end of the term, when outside art projects start appearing overnight, and I feel like I should share them with you. Very rarely do we in the department ever find anything out about the works-we don’t even know the class or professor. […]…Continue Reading More Art in the Landscape
Leaves Emerging
“What a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”
Henry David Thoreau
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Plant Vandalism
The final straw came late last week, at about 3:15 in the morning.
Nancy my (wonderfullypatientforputtingupwithme) wife, is a night cook at the Grille. While she was crawling into bed after work, she must have thought I was awake, so she said, “Tonight I saw a student carrying a tree into the Grille.”
Even if I wasn’t awake, […]…Continue Reading Plant Vandalism
Plants of a (mis)Spent Youth
Friends ask me how I got into this line of work. How do can I explain it to a non-plant person? It’s all about the plants, after all, but how? What is it about the flowers, or the mulch, or the dirt? How did I get from playing Led Zeppelin on my eight track, painting my parent’s house white […]…Continue Reading Plants of a (mis)Spent Youth
Landscape Department Wins Award
Four of us just got back from the winter meeting of the Green Works- the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association. Our landscaping department at Middlebury won the Grand Honor Award for 2009 forLandscape and Garden Commercial Maintenance. We submitted picutures and a narrative shortly before Thanksgiving last year, and a panel of 6 industry professionals and […]…Continue Reading Landscape Department Wins Award