After trying to grow tasty things like arugula, cilantro, dill and parsley in the ground, we decided that our snails and slugs are just too voracious. But apparently they don’t climb on benches to devour our plants – and putting the plants in pots gives them perfect drainage. Cilantro This is something we never seemContinue reading “Herb garden on the way”
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Luciole Design on Facebook.
Because you just never know where people might look for ideas. Use the link if you’re a fan of Facebook: Luciole Design Landscape Architects on Facebook! Social Media How “social” can this media be when you don’t sit around a table and talk, visit, entertain together? I can post all the outdoor cooking tips IContinue reading “Luciole Design on Facebook.”
Light it up!
A digital control system coupled with adjustable color makes it easy to set the mood. For a Palm Springs inspired mid-century modern design, this brings a lot of glamour to the evening! Any ambience you can image, you can probably create…
Farewell, Steve.
Ever meet someone who really loves his job? Where the job is more vacation than vacations? Steve was that guy. Almost. You can’t dive for abalone building landscapes, after all. He passed away a couple of days ago, something nobody expected. He headed Park Place Landscapes, our go-to construction company. Everyone loved working with him,Continue reading “Farewell, Steve.”
Attracting wildlife: active vs passive
How to attract wild birds to a garden
Capturing a front yard for entertainment and outdoor living
Some notes concerning personal site visits for design applied to a recent project
Consults: Fast concept development in the field
It’s amazing what you can do with a couple of iPads, a laser and the right software, in this case Morpholio Trace and AutoCAD. These are examples of past consults for projects of different styles
All grown in!
Time flies when you’re hiding from covid! It’s been four years since this project was installed, and things have grown in. They’re now in the maintenance period, keeping everything looking good.
Retrospective: An early design
Endings. Beginnings. New Year. Time to run a retrospective series, telling stories of design across a not-so-epic scale. Hopefully you’ll be amused, entertained and enlightened. It started with a party in 2000 We came into this project after meeting an architect at a party, who was working on a custom house, very clean, very chic.Continue reading “Retrospective: An early design”
So long, Houz2. It was fun.
Houz used to be a great design resource. They even wanted us to upload images and tell stories. We even got badges for good work. Then the badges became more and more scarce, the sales calls more frequent. There was less and less reward for adding content to their site and more demand for “upgrades”.Continue reading “So long, Houz2. It was fun.”