On this rainy Boston day, LAB Architect’s partner Stephanie Goldberg stopped by the Cityscapes greenhouse to pick out plants for the living walls that Cityscapes’ Jan Goodman will be installing for Goldberg. The Living Walls will be installed at Harvard University on the 10th floor of the William James Hall building which accommodates three professors of psychology, their laboratories and graduate students as well as shared conference and lounge spaces. The Living Walls will also be submitted under the innovative catergory in hopes to achieve LEED points.

Pictured: Cityscapes President Jan Goodman and LAB Architects Partner Stephanie Goldberg picking out plants for the new Harvard University Living Wall.

Cityscapes’ Horticulturists Alex Masella and Sandra Larrauri are at the Fairmont Copley Plaza maintaining the exterior plants.

Check it out, Cityscapes President Jan Goodman has been quoted is an article entitled LEED Innovation Credit: Living Walls by Stephanie Goldberg on the benefits and upkeep of living walls.

Cityscapes’ newest horticulturist Juan Ortiz teams up with Senior Horticulturist Alex Masella and Owner of Oasis Plantscaping Brad Dehaven to learn how to accurately install plants into a living wall.

Juan, Brad, and Alex place the plants into the living wall bed.

 

Installing plants into the living wall Pictured: Juan Ortiz (left) Brad Dehaven (right)

 Check out Cityscapes and Oasis on twitter for more information.

@Oasis_Plants

@CityscapesInc1

Cityscapes would like to welcome and introduce their new horticulturist Sam Robertson.

Pictured: Sam Robertson watering the plants in the office.

The Final Product!

Cityscapes’ Operations Crewmen Brian Juneau and Pat Deleon put together 501 Boylston’s new elevator lobby seating.

Pictured: Pat Deleon and Brian Juneau installing foliage into the Modular Pots system.

Spring has sprung for Cityscapes’ Exterior Landscape Division as they start their spring clean ups.

Pictured: Nick Scoppa and Pat Tavares raking the lawn at the Manulife Building in Back Bay

Pictured: Mike Rivers is trimming the rose bushes at the Manulife building in Back Bay

On Saturday March 10th 2012 BOMA held its annual benefit. This years benefit was

held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston and was Mardi Gras themed. The benefit proceeds

 went towards the Crittenton Women’s Union, Homes for our Troops, My Brother’s

Keeper, Somerville Homeless Coalition, and the BOMA Boston Education Scholarship.

To get more information on the event such as pictures, and sponsors check out the

BOMA Mardi Gras event page.

Check out this article entitled Nature that Nurtures published in this months Scientfic American Magazine. The article covers the positive effects nature has in the hospital environment.

Image credited to Scientific America’s Shawn Nielsen

Cityscapes President Jan Goodman and Paul Cavicchio owner of Cavicchios Nursery at New England Grows.

On February 1^st 2012 New England Grows kicked off their annual trade show and green industry seminars at the Boston Convention & Exhibition center.

Cityscapes designers and buyers were in attendance along with 13,000+ other green industry professionals,  all looking for the latest  and greatest in exterior landscape plant varieties and designs. Cityscapes President Jan Goodman also networked with new and current vendors to find out what is happening on the growers end of things.  Their designers attended  seminars on new plant varieties and native plants for ideas for the upcoming seasons. Cityscapes is looking forward to the spring plantings which are right around the corner and are excited to utilize all the information they gathered  .

Nice holly fern and Tillandsia's in birch containers.