I’m sure Landscape Architects are lovely people, but they must be idiots.

The only important thing they have to do is get paths in the right places.  Everything else is decoration – nice, but you can live without it.  The path is what gets you from the street to the door, which is the thing you can’t live without.

And they can’t even do that right.

How often do you walk around public buildings or campuses and see worn dirt trails between doorways, or across lawns, or around trees?  Worn dirt, while the official concrete path meanders around ten yards away.  This kind of implies that the landscape architect hasn’t entirely thought through what they’re doing.

Here’s  a tip, guys.  Look around.  There’s a corner people will walk around.  There’s the doorway.  Think about it, just for a second, before you get all designy.  It’ll save me getting muddy feet in winter.  Even better, go back after a couple of months and put a path where people are walking.  Instead of – as seems to happen around my part of the world – a fence or other barrier.

Now I’ve saved another profession from self-inflicted ruin, I’ll get to the question: why are they landscape architects, not gardeners?  They don’t really build anything, just plant it, and nature and so forth does all the rest.  Just wondering.