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  • Thursday, June 2 – Carol R. Johnson: Great American Gardeners Award Ceremony

    The American Horticultural Society’s 2016 Landscape Design Award will be presented to Carol R. Johnson, founder and chairman emeritus of Carol R. Johnson Associates of Boston, Massachusetts.  The award is given to an individual whose work has demonstrated and promoted the values of sound horticultural practices in the field of landscape architecture.  Carol has been a landscape architect for more than 50 years.  Among her notable projects are the redesign of the Mystic River Reservation and the creation of urban parks such as John Marshall Park in Washington, DC.  She taught landscape architecture at her alma mater, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has lectured at other universities in the US and abroad.  She is a trustee for the Hubbard Educational Trust, founded to further education in landscape architecture throughout the United States.

    The award will be given on Thursday, June 2 during the Banquet at River Farm, the AHS headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.  To attend, visit www.ahs.org/awards, or call 703-768-5700.

  • Thursday, November 17, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America Fall Lecture and Luncheon

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites its member clubs to the Fall Lecture and Luncheon on Thursday, November 17, featuring Carol R. Johnson, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Carol R. Johnson Associates.  Carol will speak on A Life In The Landscape.  Boston-based landscape architect Carol R. Johnson has spent the last four decades transforming urban spaces, campuses, industrial sites, and neglected waterfronts into vital, celebrated parks and public spaces.  In her lecture she will talk about her life, career, design philosophy, and what it means to be a pioneering woman in the field of landscape architecture.  At the Thursday, November 17 meeting, The Boston Committee will also present the 2011 Boston Bowl to Arabella Dane, past President of the American Horticulture Society and the World Association of Flower Arrangers, as well as a Master Judge for National Garden Clubs and the author of several books on horticulture and butterflies.  The Beautification Award will be presented to Boston University in special recognition of its work planting, paving, and enhancing the Commonwealth Avenue landscape.  Registration will begin at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street, at 10:30 pm, with lecture and luncheon to follow.  $50 for lecture and luncheon, $25 lecture only, with checks made payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mailed to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.  If you are not a member of a Boston Committee club, contact info@bostonflora.com for more information.