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  • Thursday, March 5, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Landscape Design: Why I Like What I Like!

    Thursday, March 5, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Landscape Design: Why I Like What I Like!

    On March 5 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, enjoy a fast-paced interactive discussion focused upon the underlying basics of landscape design. Once known, the reasons under-pinning our often-shared design preferences, can be replicated, improved and extended. Problems can be more quickly articulated, and remedies identified.

    As an artist and landscape architect, lecturer Walter Cudnahufsky will share insight and principles that use the visual landscapes as a starting point but dig to discern why and how those landscapes serve and please. In his recent book, Cultivating the Designer’s Mind, Walter outlines the design process essential actions to more regularly assure high quality design decisions and landscapes. We can and must be more discerning consumers of designed consulting work and become better more efficient designers! At minimum, from this workshop, we can more fully explain why we like what we like. There is real potential and intention that you will not again see designed landscape in precisely the same way.

    Walter Cudnohufsky is a registered Landscape Architect with over forty-four years experience ranging from the plaza design for the Toronto City Hall to regional planning studies for the North Atlantic Regions to private residences in the Berkshires. He received his M.L.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and B.S.L.A. from Michigan State University. Walt’s interest in analysis, concept development and design process led him to found the nationally recognized graduate program at the Conway School of Landscape Design in 1972. In 1992, after 20 years as CSLD director, he returned full-time to his ongoing private practice.

    Walt is quick to identify attributes and constraints, offer compelling ideas, and define simple, innovative concepts that lead to uniquely appropriate design solutions. He is a regular speaker and workshop leader at regional and national forums, and frequently facilitates energizing and productive meetings for a wide variety of organizations and institutions.

    The session begins at 6 pm. $32 for Tower Hill members, $46 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Saturday, February 29, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The Perennial Plant Palette

    With so many plants to choose from, how can one be sure of creating successful perennial garden designs? Analyze the site, pick the right plants for that habitat and create winning combinations based on growth habit, foliage, and flowers. Need some help? Join perennial plant expert Robert Herman on Saturday, February 29 at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge at 2 pm as he provides inspiration through examples of wonderful combinations for every type of gardening situation. BBG members $25, nonmembers $35. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/perennial-plant-palette-combinations-every-garden

    Robert Herman has over 25 years of experience as a professional horticulturist, almost 7 of which were spent in Europe as “Meister” for the Countess von Zeppelin Nursery in Germany. He served in the horticulture and education departments at the Missouri Botanical Garden; at White Flower Farm he was Director of Horticulture. From 1999-2007, he lead his own international consulting business, Uncommon Plants, specializing in perennials for gardens and green roofs.

  • 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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  • Tuesdays, February 5 – March 19, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Residential Landscape Design

    This New England Wild Flower Society multisession course on Tuesdays, February 5 – March 19 from 6:30 – 8:30 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, tackles the different aspects of the landscape design process. Workshop sessions focus on design methods using site analysis techniques and schematic design tools. Participants consult with the instructor and work on projects of their own choosing. Discussions about plants and habitats are interspersed with lectures on design principles, including criteria for making plant choices and determining placement in the landscape. Karen Sebastian is the instructor, and the fee is $231 for NEWFS member, $272 for nonmembers.  Image from www.terrascapeslandscapedesign.com. Register at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/residential-landscape-design-1

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  • Wednesdays, January 16 – March 6, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Planting Plan Design Studio

    Learn how to design a planting plan for private and public garden spaces in this five week Berkshire Botanical Garden Course, in conjunction with Berkshire Community College. Explore the manipulation of space by using plant material through a series of exercises dealing with form, color, and texture. Students will consider the nature of plant characteristics in specific design settings. Style of house will be used for a source of inspiration while honoring the horticultural needs of each plant. Students will make presentations for each project, and class critiques will be positive, instructive, and essential to the learning process. This is a participatory class. Required text: Professional Planting Design by Scott Scarfone. Prerequisites: Herbaceous Plants, Ornamental Woody Plants, Drafting for Garden Design. Classes will take place in the Education Center at Berkshire Botanical Garden from January 16 through March 6, from 5:30 – 8:30.

    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: $350, Non-Members: $385. Registration information may be found at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/planting-plan-design-studio

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  • Wednesdays, January 16 and 23, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Designing the Winter Landscape

    Wednesdays, January 16 and 23, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Designing the Winter Landscape

    Maria von Brincken will help you design an outdoor space that uses texture, color, and mass planting to create visual interest throughout the winter. Winter gardens also create a backdrop for seasonal flower gardens. Featuring Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Bressingham Garden, her design work, and others, Maria will introduce you to lay-out and plant lists that will inspire your garden planning during these cold months. Weather permitting, dress for a tutorial walk in our winter gardens. There will be class time for you to experiment with winter planting combinations and layout that could work in your own gardens.

    Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating her 21st year in professional practice. Maria specializes in custom beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens using native and ornamental plants. Trained as a fine artist, color theorist, and organic gardener Maria brings years of critical design thinking to her landscape solutions. Her design has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine, Landscape Ideas You Can Use and others.

    Her lectures and workshops have been featured at Mass Hort, Boston The Flower Show, Radcliffe Seminars and the LI, Conn. Master Gardener’s Conference, Perennial Plant Conference, ELA- just to name a few. Her lectures, classes, and workshops teach successful ways of thinking and techniques. Learn more about Maria and her work at http://www.mariavonbrincken.com

    The class takes place January 16 and 23 from 10 – 2 at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Must Pre-register at www.masshort.org.

    Mass Hort Members: $135 ; Non-Members: $175

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  • Thursday, October 18, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Sustainable Site Design

    This New England Wild Flower Society one-day intensive seminar on October 18 from 9 – 5 at Garden in the Woods, taught by Tom Benjamin, explores the fundamentals of integrating buildings within landscapes and reducing maintenance needs through landscape design. Participants investigate sustainable design strategies that address the ecological, water, energy, and food systems. Topics include design principles and process, native plant community restoration and maintenance. Participants complete a short design assignment. Cosponsors: Ecological Landscape Alliance and Boston Society of Landscape Architects. $106 for members of sponsoring organizations, $128 for nonmembers. Register at www.newenglandwild.org.

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  • Saturday, October 13, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Landscape Design Clinic

    This Berkshire Botanical Garden fast-paced, information-saturated clinic on October 13 from 9 – 4 will introduce design students, home owners, and others to an opportunity-finding and problem-solving design process. It will lead to the basic conceptual elements of a landscape master plan. All attendees will participate in the process of observing and designing. Students will come away with coherent examples of how design happens. An active discussion format will focus on common design principles. A step-by-step PowerPoint presentation will focus the discussion later in the afternoon. This all-day workshop is a prerequisite for the Landscape Design Clinic Level II course offered in spring 2019. The field trip is held rain or shine. The instructor is Walter Cudnohufsky, and the cost is $115 for BBG members, $125 for nonmembers. Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

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  • Tuesday, July 17 – Thursday, July 19 – Nantucket Garden Festival

    The 10th Annual Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. Scheduled for July 17th-19th, the festival celebrates gardening through creative workshops, exquisite garden tours, children’s workshops, family activities and an opening night party. The keynote speaker will be Thomas Rainer, Principal of Phyto Studio in Washington, DC. In a workshop entitled The Inspired Plantsmen: Nature-Inspired Approach to Plant Selection and Composition, Rainer, a leading voice in ecological landscape design, will discuss how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse. Both practical and inspiring, this talk will explore a synthesis of ecology and horticulture—resulting in an intentionally designed and managed plant community where population dynamics are encouraged within an aesthetic framework. Rainer’s workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 18th.

    The Festival is also thrilled to be welcoming Jennie Love of Love ‘n Fresh Flowers to Nantucket for the Festival’s first-ever Celebrity Floral Design Workshop. This half-day event, hosted in the Nantucket Yacht Club’s Governor’s Room, will include six hours of hands-on design and instruction. Participants will leave with a bouquet and a centerpiece (an abundance of flowers!). All flowers used during the workshop are grown by Love at her organic, urban flower farm in Philadelphia. Owner and Creative Director at Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, Jennie Love is a trained horticulturist and life-long farmer. Jennie first began flower farming in 2007 and launched her thriving event design studio in 2009. A charismatic and passionate business woman, Jennie found her natural niche as a “farmer florist” for wedding and special event design, becoming a recognized leader in the local flower renaissance with her distinctively lush and textural creations. She has been prominently featured in major press, including the New York Times, for her farm-to-centerpiece efforts, as well as in numerous photo shoots, magazines, style blogs, and books. She was named one of the top wedding florists in the nation by Martha Stewart Weddings (Spring 2015 issue) and received a special In Season spread featuring her work in the Summer 2016 issue of the magazine. This workshop takes place Wednesday, July 18 from 9 – 3. ($1,000 if you register before June 30, $1,250 thereafter)

    Jennie has led many design workshops and classes, including the sold-out Seasonal Bouquet Project workshops and several accredited classes for Longwood Gardens’ Floral Design Certificate program. Jennie is currently Vice President for the national Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and writes a regular column for the Cut Flower Quarterly. More information about Love ‘n Fresh Flowers and Jennie are available at http://www.lovenfreshflowers.com.

    On Tuesday from 9 – 11, join a Victory Garden Talk and Tour with Russell Morash, hosted by Russell and Marian Morash and sponsored by Johnny’s Selected Seeds ($85 before June 30, $100 thereafter). Also on Tuesday, from 10 – 12, is a floral arrangement workshop with Megan Soverino ($300/$350),  and a Mommy & Me Garden Tea Party from 2 – 4 ($65/$75).  If you prefer to be at the other end of the island, there will be two ‘Sconset Walking Garden Tours, one with Jenne Atherton from 2:30 – 4:30 and a second from 3 – 5 with Katie Hemingway (each $75/$85)

    Wednesday brings a Lincoln Circle Walking tour with Julie Wood from 9 – 11 and a Lincoln Circle Walking Tour with Fabrizia Lu Macchiavelli from 9:30 – 11:30 ($75/$85).  You may wish to participate in Fairy Gardens & Floral Crowns with Alana Cullen and Bee Shay from 10 – noon ($50/$60), and end the day with a Garden Soiree from 6 – 9 at Middle Brick ($150/$200).

    Thursday features Monomoy and Polpis Garden Tours with Amy Pallenberg from 9 – 11 ($75/$85) and an Intimate Garden Talk and Lunch with Gordon Hayward at the Nantucket Culinary Center from noon – 2 ($200/$225).  The Mommy & Me Garden Tea Party returns to the Nantucket Lighthouse School from 2 – 4 ($65/$75).

    To register, and for a complete calendar of events, visit http://www.ackgardenfestival.org/

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  • Wednesdays, July 11 – July 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – The Art of Planting Design

    In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society tutorial course, Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you how to use color and plants to design gardens filled with color from flowers and foliage. You’ll learn how to create beautiful plant combinations that flower from spring to frost for sun and shade.

    Through hands-on practice sessions, participants make a landscape/garden color palette, practice the system to design plant combinations in color sequences through the seasons, and learn planting bed lay-out. Tutorial walks in the Bressingham Garden illustrate class lectures and exercises. The classes will take place July 11, 18, and 25 from 10 – 2 at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. $240 for Mass Hort members, $275 for nonmembers. Register online at http://masshort.org, or call 617-933-4973.

    Maria von Brincken, principal of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating her 20th year in professional practice. Maria specializes in custom beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens using native and ornamental plants.

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