This Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts four-course series provides continuing education in landscape design.  One course is offered annually in Massachusetts.  Landscape Design courses and examinations are open to all.  The written examinations are based on both the required reading and the lecturers’ presentations.  After successfully completing any two courses, a student who is a member of a garden club is eligible for Provisional Consultant status and may join a Landscape Design Council.  The following topics are covered in Course III, which will be held November 1 – 3 at Elm Bank Reservation, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.  Indicated in parentheses are the corresponding chapters in Stewards of the Land: A Survey of Landscape Architecture and Design in America, the course textbook, available through Amazon.com, or through National Garden Clubs, Inc. (call 314-776-7574, or visit www.gardenclub.org.):

Color in the Landscape (6); Landscape Design Accessories (12); Landscape Design for Maintenance (15); Design on the Land – Regional Expression (24); Development of Landscape Architecture from 1840-1940 (25); Introduction to Urban Design (32); Parks, Playgrounds, and Conservation Areas (18); Graphics Interpretation (29); and Guidelines for Evaluating Landscape Design (30).

Other reading assignments are taken from The National Gardener, the official publication of National Garden Clubs, Inc.  For a subscription, please contact Lillian N. Cohen (781) 721-2888, or email her at lilandbud@verizon.net. For further information contact LDS Chair Jane O’Sullivan at jeosullivan@comcast.net.