LANDSCAPE BLOGS YOU LOVE

December 5, 2013 by Jennifer Reut

Maybe you’ve noticed things have been a bit more lively here at the Landscape Architecture Magazine blog of late, and you’d be right. In addition to cranking up our posting to twice a week (!), we’ve been thinking a bit about what we might do to expand our audience and create more of a community of landscape-minded readers. There are many changes afoot that will be rolled out in 2014, but we’d like your help with some low-hanging fruit, namely our blog roll.

Yes, the blog roll is a venerated tradition in the webs, but often it just becomes a mutual linkfest that highlights the same five well-known news aggregators over and over. We’d like to do something more substantial, and we’d like your help, friendly reader.

Our current blog roll (over on the right—->>) is pretty good, but some of our favorites aren’t posting so much anymore and our sense is that there are a lot more landscape-oriented blogs out there than there were a year ago when we first made the list. That’s where we’d like your help.

So tell us your favorite landscape blogs in the comments below. We’re interested in original content, rather than aggregators, and we’re curious about anything that shapes landscape, from agriculture to climate to infrastructure to policy to design theory to design tech.

Here are some we’ve been reading lately–

Rust Wire. Always a fave. News and urban grit from the rust belt.

BakkenBlog. North Dakota oil and gas.

Big Picture Agriculture. Perspectives on ag policy, food, science.

The Prairie Ecologist. Notes on prairie ecology, restoration, and management.

Small Streets Blog. Life at a plausible scale.

Gizmodo. New life under Geoff Manaugh of bldgblog, but you knew that.

Garden Rant. Various garden-related posts with a strong point of view.

99% Invisible. Blog to accompany the excellent design-oriented podcast.

What are you reading and liking? Suggest blogs in the comments or on Twitter @LandArchMag.

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42 Responses

on December 5, 2013 at 5:10 pm | Reply Jennifer Reut

Somehow I neglected to add Maria Popova’s addictive Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/). Not landscape per se but a design sensibility in everything she sees, does, or writes.
on December 19, 2013 at 11:09 pm | Reply Leda

A small bit of self-promotion – our blog, Green Infrastructure for Your Community – covers green infrastructure issues in blog posts twice a week. We focus on how trees, soil, and stormwater are being planned, managed, and maintained in urban environments, and cover everything from recent news and policies to sharing original research and answers to commonly asked questions. I write some of the posts, but we also have regular guest posters, most notably James Urban, FASLA, Peter MacDonagh, FASLA, landscape architects from the Kestrel Design Group, and garden educator Ellyn Shea.
on December 20, 2013 at 3:01 am | Reply Jill Brown

Thanks for sharing some inspiring blogs. I’ve recently started a landscape blog with a focus on living outdoors, sustainable design, creating places to play and building community. You can find the sage advice blog here http://www.browngreenandmore.com/sageadviceblog/
on December 23, 2013 at 7:00 am | Reply Garden Design Coventry

Thank you for sharing nice blogs. focus on living outdoors, sustainable design, creating places to play and building community.
Garden Design Coventry
on February 5, 2014 at 2:28 am | Reply Anonymous

Great list! As what my Columbia SC Landscapers friends say, beautiful landscaping is an effective stress reliever that brings happiness and peace of mind. The blogs you’ve listed promote appreciation of nature and things that we can do to enhance its beauty. Thanks for sharing these awesome blogs.
on February 26, 2014 at 7:43 am | Reply Babi Roy

Very nice blog! I’ve just bookmark this!
on April 5, 2014 at 9:45 pm | Reply Jeff

Thanks for the great information and the links to other interesting resources. Another great source is http://GreenStrides.com, the blog focuses on sustainable landscaping and design.
on April 16, 2014 at 1:11 pm | Reply loganmartindotcom

Thanks for sharing such a interesting blog
on May 7, 2014 at 4:09 am | Reply Norma de Langen

Thanks for sharing your blog list. Hope you don’t mind me shamelessly self-promoting but I would love it if you took a peek at my blog http://www.daisylovesdesign.com I’m a landscape architect and I blog here mostly about landscape design/architecture, gardens and landscape inspired/related products and art. Still in it’s infancy, but the plan is to blog at least every second day as there is just so much awesome ‘green’ design out there.
on July 8, 2014 at 5:09 am | Reply Clint Gearside

Thanks for sharing this list up, some good reads but the “Big picture Ag” link does not work
- on July 8, 2014 at 1:35 pm | Reply Jennifer Reut
  
  Fixed! Thanks for the head’s up.
on November 13, 2014 at 10:06 am | Reply Emma

Thanks a lot for sharing these blogs. I don’t know good blogs about landscaping , so thanks a lot! Regards!
on April 1, 2015 at 3:21 pm | Reply Leslie Lowe

I have a blog on my website and it’s about rural Landscape Architecture and covers Dog Parks, native seeding Food Forests and other interesting topics.

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on April 29, 2015 at 9:45 am | Reply edible landscaping atlanta

Those blogs are really inspiring, thanks for sharing this to us.
on June 8, 2015 at 7:56 am | Reply landscape atlanta

I’ll going to follow those blogs, cheers.🙂
on July 6, 2015 at 6:53 pm | Reply Levi Scott

Thank you guys, this is a great list. I’m always looking for good landscape blogs to follow.
on July 15, 2015 at 5:59 am | Reply alex

following the blogs asap
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on July 20, 2015 at 6:50 am | Reply Maxine Travis

So kind of you to share so many interesting blogs. I read your magazine and I love it! Thank you for the unique and interesting ideas every single time!
on July 22, 2015 at 6:49 am | Reply shaunbagwellmasonry

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on August 12, 2015 at 9:10 am | Reply Karen - arbormasters.com

We have a blog about landscape, updated once every 2 weeks. Hope you don’t mind to include it to your list. You can visit our blog at http://arbormasters.com/arbor-blog/ Thanks for sharing very useful information and interesting blog list.
on October 3, 2015 at 11:04 am | Reply Ross NW Watergardens (@NWwatergardens)

Our blog is a good resource too! http://www.rossnwwatergardens.com/portland-landscaping-blog/
on October 16, 2015 at 10:58 pm | Reply Tony Moffs

Appreciate your generosity in sharing this list . Always looking for a different perspective and ideas.
Thanks
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on January 1, 2016 at 1:46 am | Reply Scenicroute

Thank you guys, this is a great list. I’m always looking for good landscape blogs to follow.
Awesome Post…
on January 1, 2016 at 1:47 am | Reply scenicroutelandscaping

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on January 6, 2016 at 4:34 am | Reply RD@Ecological Restoration

Thanks for sharing your list. I will try to visit all the sites you’ve suggested and learn new techniques & strategies in landscaping.
on January 18, 2016 at 8:28 am | Reply smithtaylor1

Thanks for sharing your blog list. Hope you don’t mind me shamelessly self-promoting but I would love it if you took a peek at my blog http://www.kitelandscapes.co.uk/
I’m a landscape architect and I blog here mostly about landscape design/architecture, gardens and landscape inspired/related products and art.
on March 17, 2016 at 11:19 am | Reply James Condrat

Thanks for the list. I am interested in garden water fountain designs and I have a new web site where I sell garden fountains. Any articles or sites you can recommend on incorporating water features into the garden
on May 2, 2016 at 8:31 pm | Reply Jack

What an awesome resource. It can be hard to find go-to landscaping and DIY style blogs. Thanks for sharing this and putting the work in to create it!
on May 5, 2016 at 2:10 am | Reply joe

Interesting read, thought provoking
on May 5, 2016 at 2:14 am | Reply joe

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on July 12, 2016 at 3:01 am | Reply Alice Ngigi

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on August 23, 2016 at 7:41 am | Reply Mitie Landscapes

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