AboutMarc Chapelle, ASLA Expertise As a licensed Landscape Architect, I can answer general questions about style and design, ideas and suggestions for site amenities, larger site-planning issues, or recreation and park design.
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I prefer you ask somebody else why your petunias are not as perky as they should be...I'd LOVE to tell you how can use those petunias to increase your home's value!
Experience Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ALSA.org); Past clients have been mostly contractors, developers and local civil engineering/architecture firms, plus the occasional homeowner. Currently, I design recreational facilities for the National Park Service (DOI).
I am located in the dry Great Basin area (Greater Nevada/Utah), so the use of landscape materials OTHER than plants is emphasized. As a licensed Landscape Architect on the East and West Coasts, I have been in practice over 20 years.
Organizations ASLA (ASLA.org)
Education/Credentials BSLA in Landscape Architecture, 1989
Many additional seminars, educational venues, and classes (both taught & attended)
Awards and Honors Best Multifamily project, 1993
Best Model Home Landscaping, 1993
Question I am downsizing my rockery and my weeding. Is it OK to use a layer of cedar
sawdust and top it with cedar chips for a nice longer lasting mulch or will the
cedar kill my flowers and shrubs ? Thank you ! Anne
Answer Cedar is non-toxic to people, and some holistic herbalists recommend its oils for personal use, although some sensitive persons have reaction to it. It *MAY* contain toxic phenols harmful to rodents & poultry, but I'm not 100% positive, as I'm not a Veterinarian.
As to plant toxicity, it is used extensively to keep weeds at bay, as its ground-shading properties keep seedings from germinating successfully.
I have not seen or heard of it having an damaging effect on larger plants (like raising pH of the soil, causing die-back, etc.)...So go for it! ~Marc
