Former Vice-President Al Gore may be an climate expert, but nobody is better an inventorying a site’s climate details like a landscape architect. Climate and microclimate are natural existing conditions that need to be identified during the site inventory phase…
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Inventory a Site’s Climate Better Than Al Gore
Posted in Site Inventory Tagged with: Climate, Climate inventory, macroclimate, microclimate, Site Inventory, topoclimate, wall-o-water
Here’s a Quick Way to Find Your California Climate Zone
Sunset Magazine has the best and most useful climate classification system for gardeners and landscape architects. For years, landscape architects have used the Sunset Western Garden Book climate maps to help decode California’s complicated patchwork of climate zones and find…
Posted in Site Inventory Tagged with: Climate, Inventory, Plant Zones, Site Inventory, Sunset Climate Zone Maps
Everything I Used to Know About California’s Climate (And Wish I Could Remember)
Climate is an important and timely topic, but it has probably been a while since you took a climate class. This article is a brief refresher course on California’s climate that will help shake out the cobwebs in your brain…
Posted in Site Inventory Tagged with: Biomes, California Climate, Climate, Climate Zones, Site Inventory
Five Existing Natural Conditions To Identify in a Site Inventory
Landscape architects regularly inventory existing natural site conditions as part of a site inventory. There are several different natural existing conditions that landscape architects should be familiar with for the California Supplemental Exam (CSE) for landscape architects. According to the…
Posted in Site Inventory Tagged with: Climate, Existing Conditions, Existing Natural Conditions, Site Inventory, Soil, Subsurface Hydrology, Surface Hydrology, Topography, Vegetation