Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story
The Cultural Landscape Foundation provides people with the ability to see, understand, and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. In 2010, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and American Photo magazine, with support from The Davey Tree Expert Company and American Forests, created an original traveling exhibition about the irreplaceable trees and tree groupings—often associated with historically important people and events—that have shaped the development of communities and cultures, many of which are at risk.
As a media sponsor of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Garden Design is proud to share the beautiful photographs and accompanying stories that are on display in the 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story exhibition. www.tclf.org
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION
For more information on The Cultural Landscape Foundation and this exhibition, visit their site: www.tclf.org
Partners in the making of the 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story:
AMERICAN PHOTO
American Photo is the essential magazine for everyone who is passionately interested in the art, craft and culture of photography at its highest level. We provide a showcase of inspiring imagery, we tell the stories behind the photographs, and we identify the trends, people, themes, and tools that photography enthusiasts must know about now. www.popphoto.com
DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY
The Davey Tree Expert Company, with U.S. and Canadian operations in 45 states and five provinces, provides a variety of tree services, grounds maintenance, and consulting services for the residential, utility, commercial, and government markets. Founded in 1880, Davey is employee owned and has more than 7,000 employees. www.davey.com
(Pictured: Boxed Pines, Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines, NC)
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East Hampton, NY
Founded in 1648, the village of East Hampton displays one of the nation’s finest small architectural and landscape ensembles. By 1895, its American elm trees (Ulmus americana) were noted in print and, in 1920, were made famous by a Childe Hassam painting of the village. While disease and insects have threatened the trees, nearly 150 of the specimens continue to form a high, leafy canopy over the village streets. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Garie Waltzer
Bratenahl, OH
Katewood, historically owned by the Holden family (today best known as the founders of the Holden Arboretum), is a Country Place era estate designed by A.D. Taylor. The Black Oak tree (Quercus velutina) that pre-dates the house stands as a rare remnant of the area’s pre-settlement era. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Barbara Bosworth
Ames, IA
Professor of Horticulture A.T. Erwin planted this linear feature of 50 sycamore trees (Platanus occidentalis) in the early 1900s parallel to the Ames-to-Campus railway at Iowa State University. While the tracks for the old steam engine and electric trolley have since disappeared, the trees continue to mark the historic transportation route used by countless pioneers traveling across the Midwest. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by David Jordano
San Juan, PR
Three African cloth-bark trees (Ficus nekbuda) located along one of Puerto Rico’s busiest thoroughfares are approximately 50-feet tall, with a 20-foot total trunk diameter. Reminiscent of the farmsteads that once inhabited the region, their combined canopy stretches over seven lanes of highway and marks the entry point to Río Piedras and the greater San Juan metropolitan area. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Juan Pons
Washington, D.C.
Tudor Place, built in 1805, has a beautiful collection of specimen trees on its 5-½ acre property, but there is one in particular that shines brighter than the rest. The tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), which stands more than 80-feet tall with a diameter of 60 inches, has been present since the founding of Washington, D.C. as a small port city in the 18th century. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Amy Bedik
Boston, MA
Initially laid out in Arthur Gilman’s 1850s plan for the Back Bay neighborhood, the original nine-block mall was completed in 1881 (with additional sections designed over subsequent decades). The mall links the Boston Common and Public Garden to Boston’s famed Emerald Necklace of parks and stands as a premiere example of a tree-lined avenue. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Jay Dickman
Los Angeles, CA
The 60 by 70-foot Moreton Bay fig tree (Ficus macrophylla) marks the former location of the Koyasan Daishi Mission, one of the city’s oldest and largest Buddhist temples. The tree, nearly 100 years old, stands as a living symbol of the city’s cultural and historical development of Buddhism and the Japanese American community. Learn more at www.tclf.org
Photograph by Robert Glenn Ketchum
