Boston Flora

Tag: Landscape Design

  • Tuesday, October 24, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Designing a Garden for All Seasons: Autumn Edition

    How do you create an all-season garden that both captivates people and provides for wildlife year-round? On Tuesday, October 24 at Garden in the Woods, Anna Fialkoff will discuss designs and plant palettes for your garden that focus on structure and seasonal themes, with special attention to fall gardens. Afterward, you will walk through the Garden to see how the Society’s horticulture team tackles the autumn season. The New England Wild Flower Society session will begin at 10 am and is $62 for NEWFS members, $73 for nonmembers. Register online at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/designing-a-garden-for-all-seasons-autumn-edition

  • Saturday, October 28, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – Landscape Design Clinic with Walt Cudnohufsky

    Berkshire Botanic Garden in Stockbridge will offer a fast-paced, information-saturated clinic to introduce design students, homeowners and others to opportunities to problem-solve the design process, leading to the basic conceptual elements of a landscape master plan. Ashfield artist Walt Cudnohufsky leads the October 28 session, from 9:30 – 4:30. Cost: $125. Register online at http://berkshirebotanical.org/

     

  • Thursdays, September 14 – October 12, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Landscaping and Planting Design

    Instructor Warren Leach, Landscape Horticulturist, will focus on fundamental principles of design used in creating landscapes and garden spaces and composing planting designs using a complement of woody and herbaceous plants. This Massachusetts Horticultural Society class is being offered through the Stockbridge School at UMass, and can be taken for 1 credit. For Credit, register at www.umassulearn.net after June 5.

    Classes will be held Thursdays, September 14-October 12, from 6 – 9, at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

    Audit this UMass Class through Mass Hort. By registering here at www.masshort.org, you will be registering for a reduced rate, and will receive NO COLLEGE CREDIT. Mass Hort Member Cost: $150; Non Member Cost $200.

  • Saturday, May 20, 9:00 am – 9:30 am – Combining Sun and Shade

    On Saturday, May 20 at 9 am, join Christie Dustman for a walk and talk through the Allandale Farm perennial yard at 259 Allandale Road in Boston. Explore the diverse offering of native and hardy perennials we grow here at the farm and gather design tips from a pro in the process. This event is free and open to all, but please pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/combining-shade-and-sun-with-christie-dustman-tickets-33277227082 as space is limited.

    Christie is a life-long gardener and owner of Christie Dustman & Company, Inc., a company specializing in fine garden care, pruning, design and landscape installation. An dynamic teacher, Christie imbues her lectures with a unique love and admiration for plants and people who garden.

  • Thursday, June 1, 12:00 noon – Landscape Design Annual Luncheon Meeting

    The Landscape Design Annual Luncheon Meeting will take place beginning at noon on Thursday, June 1 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston.  The guest speaker will be Renata von Tscharner, Founder and President of the Charles River Conservancy.  For more information contact http://thecharles.org.

  • Saturday, March 25, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Foundation Gardens That Say “Welcome Home”

    Foundation gardens and entryways can make or break the “welcome” factor and visual appeal of a home or community building. Unfortunately, foundations are often plagued by poor soil, building shadows, foot traffic, de-icers, storm runoff, and more. This March 25 New England Wild Flower Society seminar  at Garden in the Woods offers surprising new ways of seeing the complicated but valuable foundation area through design concepts. Plan before you plant! Time is 10:00 am – noon, and the course, taught by Kathy Connolly, is $53 for NEWFS members, $64 for nonmembers. Register online at www.newfs.org.  Image from www.gardeninacity.com.

  • Saturday, March 18, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – The Rabbit’s Eye View: Long-Term Plant Performance with Noel Kingsbury

    This half-day Berkshire Botanical Garden workshop on Saturday, March 18 from 9 – noon aims to encourage participants to observe garden and landscape plants, focusing on their growth through the season and over the years, looking at how they compete with each other, and assessing prospects for their longevity and their suitability for a variety of garden locations. Noel Kingsbury addresses questions about how the garden will evolve: How long will plants live? How far will they spread? How will a newly planted border look in five years, or ten years?Gardeners and designers can then use this knowledge to maximize garden interest while minimizing maintenance. This workshop teaches participants about how plants are linked to their natural habitats and ecology, and how this connects to the way gardeners can use such plants in the garden to best effect. Students will walk away with a rabbit’s eye view—a perspective that will enable them, through close observation of growing habits and life cycles of various plants, to be better gardeners and designers, and to more deeply appreciate the traits of the plants that they grow.

    The price ($75 BBG members, $85 nonmembers) of this workshop includes admission to the 1pm lecture, Wild about Perennials with Noel Kingsbury, on the same day. The workshop is limited in size and is likely to sell out. Reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. A bagged lunch can be ordered separately for an additional fee. Please call 413-298-3926 to order lunch.

  • Thursdays, March 16 – April 27, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Residential Landscape Design

    This New England Wild Flower Society multi-session course at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, appropriate for beginners, tackles the different aspects of the landscape design process. Workshop sessions will focus on design methods using site analysis techniques and schematic design tools. You will consult with the instructor and work on a project of your own choosing. Discussions about plants and habitat will be interspersed with lectures on design principles, including criteria for making plant choices and determining placement in the landscape. A list of required materials will be provided at the first class. The sessions are held Thursdays, March 16 – April 27, from 6:30 – 8:30. $215 for NEWFS members, $254 for nonmembers. Register online at www.newfs.org.

  • Monday, March 13 & Wednesday, March 15, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, and Saturday, March 18, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm – Bones of the Garden: Strengthening the Design

    Every memorable landscape has one thing in common—strong “bones.” The placement of structural plants creates form, directs movement, and organizes the garden. Exploring the concepts of scale and creation of space, you will develop your own site-specific design and receive feedback on your ideas, in this three part New England Wild Flower Society class with Cheryl Salatino. During the final session, the class will walk in the Garden.

    Monday, March 13; Wednesday, March 15, 6:30-9 p.m.; Saturday, March 18, 2017, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $135 for NEWFS members, $162 for nonmembers. To register visit www.newfs.org.  Image from www.highcountrygardens.com.

  • Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Planting in the Public Realm: Projects and Projections

    The Harvard Graduate School of Design will conduct a panel discussion on Tuesday, March 7 from 6:30 – 8:30 in Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Quincy Street in Cambridge.

    Plant life, long regarded in cities as an amenity, has throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries also become an accepted necessity integral to the urban fabric. Yet, there are multiple challenges facing plants and planting design in urban areas. Pollution, climate change, increasingly restricted space, and insufficient or nonexistent public budgets for plants are only some of the factors that make it difficult for vegetation in our cities to survive. Yet numerous new public urban parks have been created, tree planting programs persist, new plant cultivars are developed, spontaneous plant growth is studied, and new planting design paradigms are proposed.

    In a series of short presentations and a moderated discussion, landscape architects, planting designers, and ecologists will assess the current state of the art in planting the public realm. The event seeks to draw out ideas for how plants can be used in the future design of urbanizing areas to create healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and appealing environments. What is the importance of planting the public realm today, and what are its biggest challenges? What are the roles of landscape architects, designers, ecologists, and plant scientists in accommodating plant life in cities and in areas that are becoming urbanized, and are we beyond botanical xenophobia? Moderated by author Sonja Dümpelmann, associate professor of landscape architecture, with Steven Handel, visiting professor in landscape architecture; Noel Kingsbury, writer and garden designer; Norbert Kühn, TU Berlin; Doug Reed MLA ’81, lecturer in landscape; and Matthew Urbanski MLA ’89, associate professor in practice of landscape architecture.

    Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu. The event is free and open to the public.