1812 Memorial Park renovation complete

From the Lewes Chamber of Commerce: 1812 Memorial Park was a defense battery during the War of 1812 and the site is marked by a granite monument placed by the National Society, U.S. Daughters of 1812. Four large guns on the upper lumps were contributed by the...

Garden makeover underway at Woodburn

From delawareonline.com: No one is certain what the grounds of Woodburn, the governor’s house, looked like in 18th century Delaware. Charles Hillyard III, who built the Georgian-style mansion in 1798, left no detailed seed lists nor did his neighbor to the east, John...

ASLA Green Roof: A Case Study

Click through (image above) to check out a virtual tour of the demonstration green roof atop the American Society of Landscape Architects headquarters in Washington, D.C. From greenroofs.org: The ASLA headquarters green roof was undertaken to demonstrate the...

Snakes in the park

One RRLA, Inc. associate recently had a close encounter with these two Northern Copperheads (pictured above) during a lunchtime walk with her Miniature Schnauzer in Alapocas Run State Park. The low areas near the Brandywine River in Alapocas Woods are a known habitat...

2013 Year of Public Service

From www.asla.org: The 2013 Year of Public Service has been established by the American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) Public Awareness Campaign to highlight the wide-reaching public service activities readily performed by landscape architects and to advocate...

Lewes Unleashed site and initial design approved

From the Cape Gazette (“Lewes approves dog park’s design” by Henry J. Evans, Jr. | November 28, 2012): LEWES, DELAWARE— Lewes Unleashed is set to move forward with a dog park organizers say will be spectacular based on its size and location. Lewes...