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  • Wednesdays, July 17, 24, & 31, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Designing with the Perennials You Love

    In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop, you’ll learn how to select a winning color palette, how to create planting combinations that will flower in season sequence, and how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to create garden layouts. Lay out your plant pairings to create an abundant, dynamic, and colorful flower garden.

    Our focus will be the perennial flower garden sequenced to bloom from spring through fall. You’ll have class time to practice new skills with in-class worksheets to create a new garden or apply them to a section of your garden (Sun or Shade) (about 8 x 20’). The instructor takes time to individually review your worksheets and your design layout and plant pairing choices. You’ll prepare before class by photographing and measuring the garden you wish to transform. A “de-cluttering” worksheet helps you take an inventory, so you’ll be ready to start your garden design.


    Pre-class Homework will be sent a week prior. Tutorial walks in MHS’s Bressingham Garden will inspire our garden designs. (Dress for rain or sun!). Lectures include extensive handouts. Lecture images are from gardens in New England, MHS’s Bressingham Garden, and the author’s design work to inspire you and give you examples you can use right away. 

    This class is currently sold out but add yourself to the waitlist HERE

  • Tuesdays, January 24 & 31, and Wednesday, January 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Eastern – Winter Garden Design, Online and In-Person

    In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop, you’ll be introduced to how to create a winter garden for your front entry gardens or other borders. You’ll learn how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to create garden layouts.  Discover how to use shrubs and trees scaled to the home landscape. You’ll discover the role the Winter Garden plays throughout the seasons. And, how to create a garden color palette that will apply to later seasons.

    If you’re redesigning an existing garden, we’ll start with a “decluttering exercise” to help you select the plants you love and thrive in your existing garden. Or if starting a new garden, a wish list of favorite plants. Then we’ll focus on designing the winter landscape of shrubs and trees—using conifers, deciduous, and broad-leafed plants.  You’ll practice creating a small Winter Garden using your own pre-measured small garden (no larger 20 x 8’—bring photos too).

    A Tutorial Walk in person at MHS’s Bressingham Garden will inspire our winter garden designs. Workshop complete with hand-outs, worksheets, and instructor review of your in-class work will get you started on learning the art of creating the Winter Garden.

    Virtual via Zoom: January, 24 & 31, 2024. Tutorial Garden Walk Jan 25, 2024 (February 1st snow day) $135 for Mass Hort members, $170 for nonmembers. Register at www.masshort.org

    Maria von Brincken, principal of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating over 30 years in professional practice. Maria specializes in landscape plans and coaching that creates beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens designed for you. A certified landscape designer by profession and an artist and gardener by obsession. 

  • Wednesdays, July 12, 19, and 26, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, and Onsite Visit – The Art of Planting Design: Learn to Design in Seasonal Sequence

    Maria von Brincken will lead you thru the garden design process in this Massachusetts Horticultural Garden three part series on July 12, 19, and 26 from 10 – 2, from 10 – 2 at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Once you have your list of the plants you love and are thriving in your garden, it’s time to design your garden.

    You’ll learn how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to create garden lay-outs, how to select a winning color palette, and how to create planting combinations that will flower in season sequence.

    We’ll start with designing the landscape of shrubs and trees—using conifers, deciduous, and broad-leafed plants.  Then we’ll layer in the perennial flower garden. You’ll practice creating small gardens either with plots the instructor provides or your own premeasured small garden (no larger 20′ x 8’—bring photos too).

    You’ll have class time to practice new skills with in-class worksheets and apply them to a section of your own garden (Sun or Shade) (about 9 x 12’). The instructor takes time to individually review your worksheets and your design layout and plant pairing choices. You’ll prepare before class by photographing and measuring the garden you wish to transform. A “decluttering worksheet helps you take an inventory, so you’ll be ready to start your garden design.

    Lectures include extensive handouts. Lecture images are from gardens in New England, MHS’s Bressingham Garden, and the author’s design work to inspire you and give you examples you can use right away.

    Maria von Brincken, principle 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. 

    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. Aformer contributing editor to LandShapes Magazine, her writing has also been published in NELDHA’s Perspectives, APLD’s The Designer, and GardenDrum.org.

    Her lectures and workshops have been featured at the MHS, 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

    Preregistration required. To register visit www.masshort.org. Mass Hort members $225, nonmembers $255.

  • Wednesday, January 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Wilding Your Perennial Garden, Online

    Love the new wilder gardens you see in magazines? These naturalistic gardens are more than a field meadow. Want to use native grasses and flowers to attract pollinators? Small space or large, you’ll learn how to design “wild” your perennial garden. You’ll also learn how to add plants for Winter Interest. This Massachusetts Horticultural Society online workshop/class on January 25 from 10 – 2 offers hands-on exercises. Learn the techniques of layout, how to choose perennials for seasonal colorful flower waves, and be introduced to choice native meadow garden plants. This is a three session workshop – more information on the times of the next two sessions will be found on Mass Hort’s website below.

     Instructor: Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating over 20 years in professional practice. Maria specializes in landscape plans and coaching that creates beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens designed for you. A certified landscape designer by profession and an artist and gardener by obsession. $230 for MHS members, $255 for nonmembers. Register at www.masshort.org

  • Wednesday, March 10, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Ornamental Meadow Gardens, Online

    This Massachusetts Horticultural Society online lecture on March 10 from 10 – 11:30 explores using native plants in an ornamental way to create dynamic, stunning meadow gardens. Layout techniques echoing the way plants communities intermingle will make your flowering planned meadow garden looks cohesive and natural. Choice plants will be highlighted. $16 for Mass Hort members, $23 for nonmembers. Register at www.masshort.org

    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 www.mariavonbrincken.com

  • Wednesdays, February 10 & 17, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, and Thursday, February 11, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – 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 the 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. There will be class time for you to experiment with winter planting combinations and layout that could work in your own gardens.

    This is a three day workshop, taking place virtually and onsite at The Gardens at Elm Bank. 

    Virtual Dates – February 10th & 17th, 10am-2pm

    On-Site Garden Visit – February 11th, 10-11am 

    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 www.mariavonbrincken.com

    Mass Hort Members: $165 Non-Members: $205  Register at www.masshort.org

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  • Wednesdays, January 22 & January 29, 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 our 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.

    This is a two day workshop, January 22nd & January 29th. Mass Hort Members: $145, non-Members: $185. To register, click here.

  • 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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  • 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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  • Wednesdays, January 17 and January 24, 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. The Mass Hort event will take place on two Wednesdays, January 17 and 24, from 10 – 2.

    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 www.mariavonbrincken.com. Must Pre-register at www.masshort.org. Mass Hort Members: $135; Non-Members: $175