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Happenings Sept 2016

Selected Events Around the Country:

Exhibitions:
thru Sept 11, Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas, Bronx, NY
NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700
thru Sept 18, Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, New York, NY
Jewish Museum, 212-423-3200

Garden Dialogues: Garden tours with landscape architects who designed them, TCLF, 202-483-0553
Sept 17: The Hamptons, NY; Stonington, CT
Sept 24: The Hamptons, NY
Sept 26-27: Chicago, IL

Sept 3, 33rd Succulent Plants Symposium, San Marino, CA
8:30AM-5PM, The Huntington, 626-405-3504
Sept 8, Lecture, Chris Reed of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Boston, MA
7PM, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 617-278-5156
Sept 8, Pushing the Boundaries on a Rooftop Garden, NY, NY
5:30PM, Battery Park City, Tour & Book Signing, The Garden Conservancy, 845-424-6502
Sept 9-11, Secret Garden Tours, Newport, RI
9AM-5PM, Self-guided walking tour, 401-439-7253
Sept 10, The Changing Landscape in Healthcare Design, Washington DC
2PM, Lecture, LA Jerry Smith, US Botanic Garden, 202-225-8333

Sept 10-11, 6th Hollister House Symposium & Garden Study Weekend, Southbury, CT
8AM-3:30PM, "A Passion for Gardens," 860-868-2200
Sept 10-11, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: NJ, CT
NJ: Montclair, Nutley, Short Hills; CT: Bridgewater, Roxbury, Washington
Sept 15-18, APLD International Design Conference, Santa Fe, NM
Sept 15, LA Thomas Woltz, Philadelphia, PA
6PM Lecture, Penn Design, 215-898-6591
Sept 16-19 Gardenwriters Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
Sept 17, Water-Wise Landscape Tour, Dallas, TX
9AM-1PM, 22nd annual tour, East Dallas & south Dallas demo gardens, 214-670-3155

Sept 17-18 Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, IL, MA, NJ, NY
CT: Greenwich, Ridgefield, Wilton; IL: Lake Forest; MA: Carlisle; NJ: Far Hills; NY: Mill Neck, Cold Spring, Lewisboro, North Salem.
Sept 23, Northeast Perennial Plant Assn Symposium, Wellesley, MA
8AM-5PM, Mass Hort Society, 617-933-4900
Sept 23, Inspiration from a Prairie Symposium, Garden City, NY
8:30AM-3:30PM, Lectures and Eco-Tour, Nassau Community College & ELA, 617-436-5838

Sept 24: Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: NY
Clinton Corners, Millbrook, Stanfordville, Cutchogue
Sept 26, "Design & Sustainability," NY, NY
6:30PM, Scandinavia House, Lecture, LA Martha Schwartz, NY Botanical Garden 718-817-8700
Sept 26, LA Liat Margolis, Philadelphia, PA
6PM, Lecture, Penn Design, 215-898-6591
Sept 29, City Roof Design, NY, NY
6:15-8:15PM, Workshop, NY Botanical Garden Midtown Center, 718-817-8700

LOOKAHEAD:
Oct 21-24, ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo, New Orleans, LA
Nov 1-4, Cities Alive Annual Green Roof & Wall Conference, Washington DC

On Vacation

Garden Design Online (like a lot you) is on vacation until after Labor Day.  There will be just one post on September Happenings sometime later this month.  In the meantime, please do enjoy the many years of archives on this site.

 

2016 APLD Awards -IV

Charles Hess of Hess Landscape Architects Inc in Lansdale, PA received a gold award from APLD for this elegant design in Bryn Mawr.

And what a great opportunity ... a client who repurchased his childhood property and transform it with new garden rooms, a pool and spa, and a new building to house an extensive art collection.

In the pool garden, plants were selected to coincide with summer bloom season.  There's also a Formal Garden with an antique fountain; a Hillside Garden, a Secret Garden and a Woodland Garden.  

Two Katsura trees flanking the front entrance were heirloom plants installed by the client's father decades in the past, and field-grown azaleas are a stunning spring display in the Hillside Garden.  

Overall great solutions for this historic site.  

See all of the APLD 2016 design awards here.

Garden Accessories: Great Rakes!

These very cool "Handy Rakes" by artist Christopher Specce were part of a recent workshop, "Furnishing Utopia," at two preserved Shaker sites.  Considered the first minimalists, the Shakers and their furniture have long been an inspiration to designers.  During the workshop, 12 international designers were invited to see study original Shaker artifacts and reinterpret them. 

LOVED these rakes by Christopher Specce, who wrote, "I’m drawn to the devotional craft the Shakers invested in the things they made and their ritualization of the tasks of daily life. I’ve tried to create a similar, albeit somewhat absurd elevation of the mundane, juxtaposing those spiritual aspirations with the kind of souvenir interpretation that exists in a gift-shop’s-view of this rich and idiosyncratic culture."

Now, let's hope he starts manufacturing them.

In the Magazines August 2016

The American Gardener July-Aug

*How to find the perfect matching plant for any perennial
*Ornamental bananas for almost any garden
*Plants with scents of vanilla, chocolate & strawberry: ice cream plants
*Annuals for architectural accents
*Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau

Sunset August

*Very cool Acapulco chairs from various sources
*Designing a home & garden after a fire.
*A home & a water nursery (Sierra Water Gardens) in Reno
*Perfect plant combos from designer Manda Galbraith of Seattle
*Water-wise garden in Joshua Tree, CA

Better Homes & Gardens August
*Space-saving garden for lounging, dining, grilling by Open Envelope Studio in Austin, TX
*Backyard shed: office, studio, guest room
*Rain Gardens
*Cacti & Hostas

Landscape Architecture August

*An issue in celebration of the 100th anniversary of our great National Parks.