by Sheila Magee | Jun 18, 2011 | Garden Design, Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Sustainability Topics
Next the crane arm went up and down many times delivering pallets loaded with buckets of coarse (2-3”) crushed quarry stone (Read Part 1 here.) This larger stone is used all around the edges of the roof and around any features that protrude above the flat surface of...
by Sheila Magee | Jun 18, 2011 | Garden Design, Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Happenings, Sustainability Topics
On a pleasant spring day in the final week of April, the foundations were laid for the fourth green roof at Swarthmore College. Whilst merry old England was celebrating the just completed nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Will and Kate), gardeners at the...
by Sheila Magee | May 2, 2008 | Happenings, Special Interest, Uncategorized
Have you noticed that the volume has been turned up on the morning chorus of bird song? Our local breeding birds are getting serious in their efforts to establish and defend territories for nesting and for raising young. More and more of our visiting migrant birds are...
