{"id":7962,"date":"2012-02-07T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:58:41","slug":"landscape-architecture-tree-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/landscape-architecture-tree-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape architecture tree stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7964\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7964\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7964\" title=\"tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1.jpg\" alt=\"Tree stamps were once a key technology for landscape architects\" width=\"775\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree_stamps_michael_lancaster2a1-624x441.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree stamps were once a key technology for landscape architects<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On my first day in a landscape architecture office the kind lady at the drawing board behind mine asked &#8216;What have you done before?&#8217;. I told her, modestly, &#8216;degrees in philosophy and landscape architecture&#8217;. &#8216;Ah&#8217;, she said, wisely and with a soft Scots accent,&#8217;an apprenticeship in the post office would more use &#8211; the main thing we do here is tree stamping&#8217;. So, in memory of that happy day, I give you a scan of a very high-class set of tree stamps, which belonged to my former colleague Michael Lancaster. A very good designer and draughtsman, I can&#8217;t think what he used them for. The largest stamps were unused until I had a go with them recently. Just think how much use they could be for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/retrospective-planning\/\">retrospective planning in Chinese cities<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my first day in a landscape architecture office the kind lady at the drawing board behind mine asked &#8216;What have you done before?&#8217;. I told her, modestly, &#8216;degrees in philosophy and landscape architecture&#8217;. &#8216;Ah&#8217;, she said, wisely and with a soft Scots accent,&#8217;an apprenticeship in the post office would more use &#8211; the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}