October arrives in the Pacific Northwest with a kind of quiet authority. The light changes first, acquiring a quality that makes even ordinary mornings look considered. Then the canopy begins its annual redistribution, returning to the ground what summer held aloft, and the question every commercial landscape must answer becomes visible in the turf, the […]
Water has a well-documented relationship with cold temperatures. It expands. It does this without consultation, without regard for whether the pipe containing it was rated for the pressure, and without the slightest interest in the repair bill that follows. Commercial irrigation systems across the Pacific Northwest experience this physics lesson on an annual basis, at […]