There are lots and lots of plant identification sites on the Internet, many of them very good, and I will be visiting them and commenting on them in future posts. But one of my favorites is Plantwire, an easy-to-use, simply designed site that is still in beta development. The home page allows searching by plant name, both common and scientific, plant color, and html tags, which is a very helpful indexing approach to searching.
The folks at Plantwire
As a landscape designer, one of the things that motivates me most is a devotion to service. Serving the client is just as much a craft as the design of the landscape, and deserves equal emphasis. And the ideal of service is intimately connected to success as a business person. My business as a landscape designer offers a service others are looking for, a skill they are willing to pay for. Though it is fashionable in
Where to begin? Well, most importantly, for the sake of this blog, I’m a newly minted landscape designer, having just completed my studies last May (2007) at The Landscape Institute of The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University (We all love to throw in the Harvard University thing!). Also, my wife Carol and I moved to Maine this past spring and are renting a lovely cabin on the Medomak River in Waldoboro, a small town in the midcoast area.
While waiting for the client calls to come flooding in, I thought it would be a nice idea to combine my skills as a landscape designer and those of my former life as a librarian, to try and produce something useful for the landscape design community, namely a blog as a sort of portal, listing the best of the web in the area of landscape design and related disciplines. Sound like a good idea? Me too. But the seed needs good earth and sun and enough water to thrive. Here’s hoping I have enough of all three to make this worthwhile for those checking in.