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Landscape Design in Snow

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2011/01/13

DRAWING IN YOUR SNOW Taking time over the drawing phase of your landscape making journey, whether in snow, on sand, lawn or paper, will strongly influence the quality of the choices you will ultimately make in the design of the things for your landscape. Drawing in snow is a pleasant way to get thoughts going [...]

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Plant Names and Why They Matter

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/09/30

“Most of us are bored with gossip and photographs of people we do not know. The beginner feels the same way about plants”[1] … The plant scene becomes more interesting when you understand the cast of characters a bit. To develop relationships with the plant players, you will want to get to know them as [...]

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What’s Next

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/06/01

THE PATH TO UNIFIED LOGICAs in almost everything, thinking in relationships will lead to the unity of the outcome. Most of your considerations will be interdependent. In the functional and pictorial aspects of the work, each can best and most beautifully be accomplished if it is understood to be what it is, not only on [...]

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Approaching Your Land

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/05/04

A Year of Observation Many of the plant materials and sylvan creatures of our northern landscapes appear and disappear through the course of the seasons, so it will require a year of observation even to fully see who lives on your land. Watching the behavior of individual types of plants and animals through the year [...]

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Begin Before the Beginning

By Ellen | Published: 2010/02/19

” The Red Queen gave Alice sage advice on storytelling when she said, ‘Begin at the beginning, go on until you come to the end, and then stop.’ But it is advice that I seldom follow. I usually begin somewhere before the beginning; write until the beginning identifies itself; and I always run the stop [...]

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