Daily Archives: February 20, 2019


Tuesdays, March 5 – April 16, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Landscape Design I

This Berkshire Botanical Garden course, given in conjunction with Berkshire Community College, meets for 7 weeks at the Education Center at Berkshire Botanical Garden on Tuesdays, March 5 – April 16, 5:30 – 8:30 pm.

This design course will introduce students to the design process—the systematic way designers approach a site and client. The course will include a series of simple projects that will end with a garden designed by the students. Learn design principles such as form, balance, repetition, line, texture, color, and spatial relationships. Additionally, students will be introduced to history and how it helps the designer resolve and inspire garden design. As the adage goes, we cannot escape our history so we have to understand where we came from.

Instructor: David Dew Bruner, A.S.L.A., is an award-winning landscape architect and fine artist with over 35 years of experience ranging from Deputy Administrator of Riverside Park, NYC, to amusement park design, historical restoration and all scales of residential design. Originally from New Orleans, he has a B.L.A. and a B.F.A. from LSU as well as an M.L.A. from the University of Massachusetts.

BBG Members: $300, Non-Members: $325. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/landscape-design-i

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Saturday, March 9, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, March 10, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Needham’s Art in Bloom

Beth Shalom Garden Club presents Needham’s Art in Bloom on Saturday, March 9, from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday, March 10, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Needham Public Library, 1139 Highland Ave, Needham Heights. Now in it’s 11th year, award winning Needham’s Art in Bloom will return by popular demand. There will be 75+ displays of Needham High School creative student artwork with colorful floral interpretations by Beth Shalom Garden Club members with participants from Kalmia and Needham garden clubs too. The free event is generously sponsored by Roche Bros. and Shark/Ninja. For more information visit http://www.needhamartinbloom.com/