HOCKER_IN_DALLAS_2-ANDREW ENGLISH
It has already been well over 7 weeks since I started in early January. Time flies.
"As we keep living and as we keep being positive, all we can do is hold onto these memories."
Another couple of weeks setting up sketchup models, proposing Lumion planting designs and wrapping up detail sheets for construction documents on Autocad.
I was also assigned to come up with the planting and material palette for 2 projects in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area. I happily organized many pages of native plant selections from Overstory trees, understory trees, large shrubs, small shrubs, deciduous shrubs, evergreen shrubs, perennials, bulbs, grasses, and vines. I was using a combination of ladybird plant database as well as inaturalist to see if the plants actually exist naturally in the area. It is saddening to see hydrangeas, bridal wreath spirea, boxwoods, distyliums, crepe myrtles, and chinese elms still getting used when the local ecology allows plenty of native diversity to fulfil those roles.
With that being said I have been getting deep into researching the local ecoregions of my area. East of Dallas lies post oak savannah (transition from damp woodlands to dry savannah), Sitting on Dallas is the Blackland Prairie (named so because of its deep rich black soil that once supported tall grass prairies), and going west of Dallas you have the Crosstimbers (crossings of timbered areas with prairies). All of these ecoregions like many others have been decimated over the years and very few natural remnants exist.
We had a meeting with our main contractor, Texas Land Care, to help get some clarity on accessible plants and how they acquire and calculate them. It was interesting how a lot of these trees installed are spotted and tagged at tree farms in Georgia, Oklahoma, and and Carolinas. Not so much florida as it seems impossible to keep the sandy soil hydrated during transport. On the other hand, the clay soil is much heavier to transport.
Somewhere in the meeting I got lost in the idea of my own tree farm and what it might look like or where it would be.
It is also interesting when some of the stone companies come in to show us their products. Stone Curators for example had an awesome set of reclaimed stone along with all the cad information and hatches you could need.
Flexing hole 14 at my local disc golf course (less than 10 minutes from where I live B))
With that goes my second update of interning at Hocker in Dallas.
"One day we will, we will find, we will conquer, conquer with love, while time is on our side. Continue to hold to those beautiful memories. They won't be here forever, but our spirit lives on,
Lil B" - Lil B
dallas has got a good one #lilb#macmilleriloveyou#w#ivy
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