Coleman Design Group
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Thank you for visiting our site and we hope you will participate in our social media project for this year’s ASLA Annual Meeting in San Diego. The purpose of this page is to explain our project and to give a brief overview of the social media tools we will be utilizing. This year promises to be [...]
The Design Process
When I was first learning the art of landscape design, no one taught me the process of design. I learned about plants, I learned what bloomed when, and what color. I learned what did well in what microclimate. I learned to layer my plants according to texture and mature height. I learned about geometric shapes [...]
Rainwater Harvesting Project
One of the challenges with landscaping in the desert is the lack of annual precipitation and the need for supplemental irrigation. Current estimates of annual rainfall for Phoenix average 8.3 inches per year. As you can imagine, water is a very precious commodity here. One of the concepts in landscape design that has always interested [...]
Welcome to September
As we enter the month of September we are anxiously awaiting the cooler temperatures of fall. Even though the reality of the situation is that we still have at least six more weeks of really warm weather, we anticipate the changing of the seasons and all that Mother Nature has to offer. Today is Friday, [...]
8.17.11 The Understory
Today was National Landscape Architecture Awareness Day and we participated by supporting the Arizona Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects by passing out flyers and cards and speaking with people we came in contact with in city parks across the Phoenix area that were designed by local landscape architects. This was an exciting [...]
