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 live in Albuquerque, and did not water the tree enough (strict water restrictions) can I grind the roots to ground level without killing the tree? It's approx.12 years old, and 25 feet tall with grass all around, making it very difficult to mow the lawn.
Answer Sounds like the wrong tree in the wrong place. Consider replacing it with something better behaved (Ash, Chinese Pistache, or Chinese Elm)
Under-watering the tree did not cause this problem. The shallow roots are an important part of the tree's health, and you can try to "grind" them, but you'll now give pathogens and diseases a new path in to the tree's system. No guarantees that it will "kill" the tree, but it won't be good for its health.
I have one in my backyard, and we only grow kids under it...bare dirt, sandbox, and a swing. Ours is about 20 years old and in really poor health; but thats another tale.
