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Goldboro Streetscape Wins NC Main Street Award

Goldboro Streetscape Wins NC Main Street Award

Goldsboro hosted the largest-ever NC Main Street Conference in March of 2016. Over 500 Main Street enthusiasts from around the state and from neighboring states attended. The streetscape project won an award for "Best Outdoor Space Improvement" at the award ceremony....

Gardens vs. Dinosaurs

Gardens vs. Dinosaurs

I became a Landscape Architect because I loved gardening.  When I was living in Ithaca, New York, I owned a house on five acres above Trumansburg on the ridge between Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga. It is breathtakingly beautiful in this part of upstate New York, with...

Designing for Healthy Urban Trees, Part 1

Designing for Healthy Urban Trees, Part 1

Nearly everyone loves, or at least appreciates, the value of trees in urban settings. They cool the air, filter up to 50% of nearby air pollution, produce oxygen, and provide shade (especially appreciated here in our southern climate). So it is a cruel irony that such...