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  • Saturday, March 2, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Cultivating the Designer’s Mind

    Long in production, Cultivating the Designers Mind — Principles and Process of Coherent Landscape Design, is a culmination of sixty years of studying, teaching and practicing landscape design. While the book is intended for all land-related professions, landscape architects, architects, planners and engineers, it is both accessible to and useful for all audiences. By personal experience, its principles and processes are widely applicable to much of common life. Highly illustrated with real world examples, this book includes Walter’s compelling watercolor landscape paintings, and focuses on the thinking process at the various stages of a design project. It concludes with ten of the most pervasive and widely applicable design principles. This Berkshire Botanical Garden talk on March 2 from 10 – noon will share some of the sources of personal inspiration, discovered principles, and insights made in capturing on paper the elusive task called designing. There will be ample time for planned audience engagement and questions and answers in the one hour talk.

    Walter Cudnohufsky, M.L.A., is a long-time dedicated teacher. Having founded and for 20 years directed the nationally acclaimed Conway (MA) School of Landscape Design, he has honed a reasoned approach to planning design. Currently his firm is engaged in many diverse and stimulating planning/design projects throughout the region. BBG members $10, nonmembers $15. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/cultivating-designer%E2%80%99s-mind

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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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  • Saturday, October 29, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – Landscape Design Clinic

    This fast-paced, information-saturated Berkshire Botanical Garden clinic with noted landscape architect Walt Cudnohufsky on Saturday, October 29 from 9:30 – 4:30 introduces design students, homeowners and gardeners to methods of problem-solving as part of the 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 and will come away with an understanding of how a good design evolves from evaluation and analysis. An active discussion format will focus on common design principles. A step-by-step presentation will focus the discussion later in the afternoon. The field trip will be held rain or shine. Dress for outdoors, wear waterproof footwear, and bring a bag lunch.

    Walter Cudnohufsky is owner of Walter Cudnohufsky Associates Landscape Architects, Land and Community Planners, Ashfield, MA. He is the founder and for 20 years was the director of the Conway School of Landscape Design. For fees and to enroll, call 413-298-3926.

  • Saturday, June 18, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm – From the Designer’s View: Edith Wharton’s The Mount

    Tour the gardens at The Mount, the estate designed and built by writer Edith Wharton in  Lenox at the turn of the century, and see this important historical garden through the eyes of landscape architect Walter Cudnohufsky, whose popular informative tours are not to be missed. This Berkshire Botanical Garden sponsored tour will be held on Saturday, June 18 from 9 – 12:30.

    In her time, Wharton was an authority on European landscape design and a passionate gardener who envisioned her gardens as an elegant series of outdoor rooms. She planned them to work in concert with the house and the surrounding natural landscape. The three acres of formal gardens that surround the house were part of a four-year garden restoration and have been replanted with flowering shrubs and the many varieties of native ferns that Wharton personally collected on expeditions around the Berkshires. The gardens include an Italian walled garden; a formal flower garden; a rock garden; a lime walk; and grass terraces. Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902, based on the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored with assisting architect Ogden Codman, Jr.

    As Walt shares his insights into the design principles that make the gardens at The Mount successful, participants will take part in a detailed and lively group discussion, learning about garden design as a set of planned relationships and an exercise in restraint. The walking workshop will focus on the ten important garden design principles set forth in Walt’s soon-to-be-published book. This experience will allow participants to understand and appreciate the landscape around them in a deeper manner.

    Walter Cudnohufsky, MLA, is a long-time dedicated teacher. Having founded and for 20 years directed the nationally acclaimed Conway (MA) School of Landscape Design, he has honed a reasoned approach to planning and design. Currently, his firm is engaged in numerous and diverse planning/design projects throughout the region.

    Participants should meet in the parking lot at The Mount, and wear sturdy walking shoes.  Register online at https://berkshirebotanical.org/education/field-trips/  Berkshire Botanical members $35, nonmembers $40.  Image from www.houzz.com.

  • Wednesday, June 3, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Ashintully Garden: From a Designer’s View

    Ashintully, the name given to the original 1,000-acre estate belonging to Egyptologist Robb de Peyster Tytus, is located in Tyringham, MA. The garden was a gift of John Stewart McLennan Jr. and his wife Katharine to The Trustees of Reservations. Mr. McLennan, an accomplished and honored composer, designed the elegant gardens over 30 years as a parallel creative effort to his musical work. Tour the garden at Ashintully on Wednesday, June 3, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm with landscape architect Walter Cudnohufsky and see this important garden through fresh and discerning eyes. There will be a detailed and lively group discussion about what makes Ashintully great. Participants will learn about garden design as a set of planned relationships and an exercise of restraint, focusing on the ten most important garden design principles as illustrated in Walter’s forthcoming book. The gardens blend several natural features into an ordered arrangement with both formal and informal beauty. In 1997, Ashintully Gardens received the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s H. Hollis Hunnewell Medal. Enjoy a fresh June morning at this lovely garden space.

    Walter Cudnohufsky, M.L.A. is a long-time dedicated teacher. Having founded and for 20 years directed the nationally acclaimed Conway (Mass.) School of Landscape Design, he has honed a reasoned approach to planning/design. Currently, his firm is engaged in many diverse and stimulating planning/design projects throughout the region.

    Dress for outdoors with sturdy walking shoes.  Berkshire Botanical Garden member price $40, nonmembers $45.  Register on line at http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/event/ashintully-garden-from-a-designers-view/?instance_id=3342.

  • Saturday, November 2, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – Landscape Design Clinic: Introduction to a Coherent Process

    This fast-paced, information-saturated Berkshire Botanical Garden clinic on Saturday, November 2 from 9:30 – 4:30 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 coherent examples of how design happens. An active discussion format will focus on common design principles. A step by step power point presentation will focus the discussion later in the afternoon. This all day workshop is a prerequisite for Landscape Design Clinic Level II course offered in spring 2012. The field trip is held rain or shine. This class can be taken as a core requirement for the Horticulture Certificate Level II program, or as an individual class.  $125 fee.  To register call Berkshire Botanical Garden at 413-298-3926, or Berkshire Community College, 413-236-2127.

    Instructor – Walter Cudnohufsky, M.L.A. is a long-time dedicated teacher. Having founded and for twenty years directed the nationally acclaimed Conway (Mass.) School of Landscape Design, he has honed a reasoned approach to planning design. Currently his firm is engaged in many diverse and stimulating planning/design projects throughout the region.

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  • Saturday, September 25, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Traveling Landscape Design Clinic

    This fast-paced, information saturated clinic sponsored by the Berkshire Botanical Garden will be held at the homes of several of the workshop participants on Saturday, September 25, from 9 am – 5 pm. An active discussion format will focus on common design principles. Problem solving, conceptualizing a landscape master plan and understanding the design process are among the topics to be explored. All attendees will participate in the process of observing and designing. Should time permit, you will visit some of Walter’s projects completed or in-process. This field trip will be held rain or shine. If you would like your property to be one of the site visits, let BBG know. There will be a $40 charge for design visits which may last up to one hour.

    Walter Cudnohufsky is owner of Walter Cudnohufsky Associates Landscape Architects, Ashfield, Mass. He is the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Conway School of Landscape Design. Mr. Cudnohufsky received his M.L.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Design and his firm has received numerous awards and Walter has been recognized as an outstanding educator.
    $85 for BBG members, $90 for non-members. Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.