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'Growing as a designer,' wrote Brian Van Bower to start his Aqua Culture column in October 2008, 'is often a matter of seeing things from fresh perspectives.   'As one with roots in the pool industry, for example, I once thought first about water and about plants and softscape later (if at all).  That bias isn't uncommon, of course:  I know plenty of landscape architects and designers who think about plants first and only later

'Growing as a designer,' wrote Brian Van Bower to start his Aqua Culture column in October 2008, 'is often a matter of seeing things from fresh perspectives.   'As one with roots in the pool industry, for example, I once thought first about water and about plants and softscape later (if at all).  That bias isn't uncommon, of course:  I know plenty of landscape architects and designers who think about plants first and only later