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Tag: COG Design

  • Friday, November 15, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Transformation: Through the Eyes of a Designer

    Transformation: A Design Showcase in Rapid Images, features the work of landscape designers who have rejuvenated abandoned and tired spaces into places which inspire hope and delight. Presentations by contributing artists and contractors show the many layers, skills, and creative inspirations that go into making a truly memorable landscape.

    Designers’ presentations will be in a Photo Flash format: Each presenter gets 10 slides and 20 seconds per slide to tell their story. The event takes place at Lexington Depot, home of the Lexington Historical Society, 1332 Massachusetts Avenue (Depot Square), Lexington, Massachusetts, on Friday, November 15, from 6 – 8.

    So many stories to tell “Quickly”: From empty lot to happy dog park in Dorchester; from post-construction high school devastation to award winning campus in Lexington; from inner-city Boston grunge to fabulous neighborhood oasis; from tired turf to soothing garden for mourning kids in Arlington.

    How do designers envision and create these miraculous transformations? Come find out, see the stories, mingle with designers, sip, munch.

    Transformation: Through the Eyes of a Designer is a benefit event. All proceeds are used for the improvement of community parks and gardens. COGdesign, a Waltham-based non-profit, works exclusively with under-resourced organizations or in underserved neighborhoods. For further information, please visit the COGdesign web site (link below).

    Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and includes appetizers. Specialty beer and wine available.

    Register on www.cogdesign.org or mail your check to: Transformation/COGdesign, 14 Buxton Lane, Waltham, MA 02451.

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  • Saturday, May 22, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm – COG-Design Plant Sale and Design Consultation

    COG-Design (Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design) will hold a sale of perennials, annuals, trees and shrubs on Saturday, May 22, from 9:30 – 2:30 at the Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street in Waltham.  In addition to the plants, reduced priced gardening gloves and other gardening items, you will have the opportunity to purchase a $25 fifteen minute on the spot Garden Design Consultation with professional designers.  Bring your photos, sketches, and questions, and get answers and suggestions for your problem areas.  Planter ideas will also be showcased.  For more information, call 781-642-6662, email info@cogdesign.org, or log on to www.cogdesign.org.

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  • Tuesday, March 2, 10:00 am – Chinese Gardens

    Lynette Tsiang, a landscape designer who uses Asian design principles and plants to create New England gardens with echoes of the Far East, will present a slideshow presentation on Tuesday, March 2, beginning at 10 am at South Church, 41 Central Street in Andover, MA, featuring six unique garden areas of China. Attendees will vicariously visit the vernacular landscape of Jingxi (1130), considered a Chinese Venice, and will also examine six classical scholar gardens located in Suzhou. Design techniques unique to Chinese gardens will be discussed.

    A graduate of the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Lynette Tsiang is a residential landscape designer who operates Lynette Tsiang Landscape Design in Lexington. She specializes in designing Asian-style, shade, and water gardens, and also designs public and memorial gardens.  She is a member of The New England Landscape Design & the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign).

    This program is sponsored by the Andover Garden Club, and is free to Andover Garden Club members, and $5 for public admission.  For more information, you may call 978-470-2627, or email bettychapman@verizon.net.  Directions to South Church may be found at www.southchurch.com.

  • Wednesday, October 7, 6 – 8 pm – Lynden Miller in Boston

    Lynden Miller, well known NYC public garden designer, will speak about designing, maintaining, and funding beautiful, four-season plantings for public places on Wednesday, October 7, from 6 – 8 pm. Her garden projects in NYC have become urban oases with economic benefits and the power to transform the way people behave and feel about their city.

    Lynden Miller’s life-long work is creating beautiful gardens in challenging locations. She has been featured on the Martha Stewart Show and in Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and House Beautiful magazines. Her message about the fundamental necessity of healthy green spaces is critical for today; her new book documents the ‘how to’ of her success. Learn more about Lynden Miller on her web site www.publicgardendesign.org .

    Lynden will sign her new book, Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape, after her presentation.  The lecture will take place at One Financial Center, overlooking the Boston Greenway, and there will be reduced on-site parking.  The catered event is sponsored by COG Design, advance tickets are $25 (seating limited to 250), and may be ordered on line at www.cogdesign.org.  You will receive a $5 credit towards the advance purchase of Parks, Plants, and People for signing.

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