Adjectives, or whatever

Adjectives, or whatever

I recently found a survey that I had filled out for my web guy/good friend, Jesse Watkins, over at Cybernetic Visionaries. I was drawn to one particular question that read, “Adjectives: Please list 5 (or more) adjectives that you think describe your company in order of relevance.” As I read through the following list, I began to expand on each. Then, with a little sarcastic guidance from my better-half, I realized I had come up with a list of transitive and intransitive verbs instead, not adjectives. Sorry, Ms. Cavanaugh, I never really did grasp that part of grammar. All I know is that my new company would sound much more interesting through verbs than adjectives. Nevertheless, I began to expand on each, to really figure out why or how these words, whatever-the-hell you Lit-majors call’em, were important to not just my company, but to the entire field of landscape design. If you find yourself in conversation with someone involved in some capacity in the landscaping industry that uses these words, you know you are in good hands. Since some of the words and definitions overlap, I’ll save you the redundancy, but here they are, in no particular order (I know, this breaks the only other rule in the original question): Inspire – This one is first because it appears in our slogan, “Inspiring Solutions For Every Environment.” This may seem obvious, but if you’re about to drop tens of thousands of dollars on a renovation project for your property, you better be inspired, at least to some extent, by the design. Anyone can go to Home Depot and buy...
Let the games begin..

Let the games begin..

..And so, here we are, finally bringing you all of our words of wit and wisdom from in and around the landscape design industry, and beyond. We hope you get as much out of these posts as we’ve attempted to put in. And we hope you have a good time along the way. With lots of advice and inspiration from my new buddy, Jason Markow, of think (here) media, I’m finally getting this blog off the proverbial ground. Although, Jason recently stated that I should skip this whole ‘Welcome to my stupid blog’ effort, and even justified the sentiment very nicely in a recent post of his own. However, I still feel compelled nevertheless to at least introduce this channel and give him BIG UPS for helping to (implicitly) create this monster. This blog will mostly be about landscaping, landscape design, landscape architecture (believe me, there IS a difference, and we’ll touch on that in a later installment here.), landscape construction and project management, landscape maintenance, veggie gardening, and the various events, techniques, technologies, materials and machines that control these interrelated industries. But, from time to time, we’ll go out on some limbs to entertain, humor and/or educate you on unrelated topics of our interest, and hopefully yours too. So, sit back, relax and enjoy!! (oh, and welcome to our stupid blog too.) See you soon.. Square Root Landscape...