mere household rubber gloves, when handling toxins.
■ Always wear appropriate gloves in situations in which your hands could be injured by rough surfaces, sharp edges, thorns, or poisonous plants.
■ Always wear a disposable face mask or a special filtering respirator when creating sawdust or working with toxic gardening substances.
■ Always keep your hands and other body parts away from the business ends of blades, cutters, and bits.
■ Always obtain approval from local building officials before undertaking construction of permanent structures.
■ Never work with power tools when you are tired or under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
■ Never carry sharp or pointed tools, such as knives or saws, in your pockets. If you carry such tools, use special-purpose tool scabbards.
The Landscape Designers
Carter Lee Clapsadle is landscape horticulturist with the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minn. Trained at the University of Minnesota in horticulture and plant biology, Mr. Clapsadle has many years’ experience as a nurseryman and garden designer in Oregon, Alaska, and Minnesota. He currently maintains 110 acres of college land, managing the greenhouse and designing and implementing garden displays. Mr. Clapsadle teaches design classes at the University of Minnesota through the Practical Scholar Program. He has received awards for urban beautification, garden tours, and landscaping from the city of Anchorage and the state of Alaska. His designs appear on page, 32–35, 36–39, 40–43, 72–75, and 108–111.
Larry Giblock came to horticulture in the early 1980s from a career in fashion design. He assisted with field studies of native plants at the Cleveland Natural History Museum and was instrumental in forming the Native Plant Society of Ohio. In 1988 the Cleveland Botanical Garden hired him to develop and oversee their Wildflower Garden, and in 1993 care of the Japanese Garden was added to his responsibilities. Mr. Giblock’s residential garden designs draw on gardening traditions of Eastern as well as Western cultures and emphasize native plants, local materials, and the work of local craftspeople. His designs appear on page, 60–63, 96–99, 100–103, and 104–107.
Jan Little is manager of horticultural education at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill. A registered landscape architect, she has worked on a wide range of projects, including residential and commercial lanscapes, woodland restoration, public gardens, and urban renovations. Ms. Little’s public beautification projects for Geneva, Ill. (where she lives and works), have received several landscape design awards. Her designs appear on page, 56–59, 76–79, 80–83, 84–87, and 88–91.
Michael Schroeder, a University of Minnesota graduate, has practiced landscape architecture and urban design in the region since 1985. He works for Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc., in Minneapolis, where he has done award-winning work helping communities develop their own design strategies. Mr. Schroeder teaches a class in landscape design for homeowners at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Residential landscape design is his avocation, and he enjoys trying out ideas on his own property in Edina, Minn. His designs appear on page, 44–47, 52–55, 64–67, 68–71, and 92–95.
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Garden geometry transforms a small front yard.
Make a pleasant passage to your front door.
Give your curbside strip a new look.
Beautify a boundary with easy-care plants.
Provide a perennial setting for the daily mail.
Striking structure and plants make a handsome entry.
Reclaim a narrow side yard for a shade garden.