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'm considering planting a Japanese fern tree about 8 feet away from my shimming pool and I would like to know if the roots of this tree grows very large and would damage my
pool please can you help me I live in Miami Thanks
Answer ello, Lilliam ~
Filicium decipiens - Japanese Fern Tree
This is a hard-to-find elegant shade tree that bears unusual foliage and maintains a spherical crown. Medium growth rate. Zones 10 & 11. From Sri Lanka and southern India. An evergreen, it will eventually grow to about 30 feet in height.
It self-sows freely; deadhead (pull up or mow down seedlings) if you do not want volunteer trees next season. As it is a rare plant that grows only in zones 10 & 11 (Hawaii, parts of lower CA, and Southern Florida) not much is know about it, and I know even less ~ Sorry.
It is a noxious weed in Hawaii, probably because of its self-sowing properties. I would also imagine that it will dump a lot of leaf litter, twigs, seeds, and such into your pool in a few years if planted too close to the edge of the deck. Keep it back from the concrete work a minimum of at least 5 feet, just to be safe.
