Softscape and hardscape

[Beverly Flanigan]

Now the question is--what's xeriscape?

At 05:29 PM 1/29/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> >
> > Now THESE are interesting innovations.
> >
> > At 10:21 AM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > From a correspondent -
> > >
> > ><<ca. 1980 when Landscape Design became separated into "softscape" and
> > >"hardscape."  Softscape is plants, and hardscape is paths, benches,
> lighting,
> > >etc. Probably derived from software and hardware, which occurred a decade
> > >earlier.
> > >
> > >
> > >George Winnacker>>
>
>I first bumped into "hardscape" when the library commission I was
>headed was considering a rework of the library's landscaping
>maybe five years ago. We were going to combine xeriscape with
>hardscape for a low-water-needs landscape.
>
>I hadn't realized that "hardscape" had been around since ca.
>1980. I've never heard of "softscape".
>
>Sal
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