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Happenings September 2024

Exhibitions:

Thru Sept 30, Dan Kiley Landscape Architecture Legacy
Bell Works, Holmdel, NJ

Selected Events Around the Country:

Sept 3, Ecology-Based Design & Organic Practice, Potomac, MD
9am-4:30pm, Glenstone Museum, Classes + Field Trips, NDAL

Sept 6, Contemporary Landscapes Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
9am-4:30pm, Historic Greenwood Cemetery, NDAL
September 7, Garden Study Weekend Symposium, Southbury, CT
8am-4pm, Heritage Hotel & Hollister House Garden, Garden Conservancy

Sept 7, Lecture & Tour, Short Hills, NJ
9-11am, "History of Greenwood Gardens," Garden Conservancy
Sept 7, Garden Tour, Entwood Garden, Bridgehampton, NY
4pm, "Late Summer on Long Island," Garden Conservancy
Sept 7, "Successional Mosaic Landscape," Stone Ridge, NY
4pm, Lecture, Garden Conservancy 
Sept 7, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: NJ, NY
NJ: Essex County; NY: Suffolk, Ulster Ctys.

Sept 12, Lecture, "Taliesin West, The Desert Laboratory," ONLINE
2pm Eastern, Garden Conservancy, LA Susannah Drake & others

Sept 14-15, Olmsted Network Annual Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Landscapes of Renewal: Olmsted, Vaux & Downing
Sept 14, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, MA, NJ, RI
CT: Fairfielod Cty; MA: Bristol, Middlesex Ctys; NJ: Bergen Cty
Sept 14, Garden Dialogues, Toronto, ON
noon-1:30pm, Sky Garden, Talk & Tour, TCLF

Sept 17-18, Modern Living Symposium, Falmouth, MA
"Inside Outdoor Spaces" 
Sept 18, Urban Tree Summit 2024, Silver Spring, MD
8am-4pm, sponsor: Casey Trees, Montgomery Parks
Sept 18-19, Landscape Expo, Anaheim, CA
Anaheim Convention Center, "The Future of Landscape"
Sept 21, Discovering Blithewood,  Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
10am, Garden & Arboretum Tour, Garden Conservancy 
Sept 21, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: NJ, NY
NJ: Somerset Cty; NY: Dutchess Cty.

Sept 26, Lecture/Book Signing, St. Louis, MO & Woodside, CA
6-8pm, LA Edmund Hollander, "The Landscape of Home," Garden Conservancy;
Repeats: Oct 17, 1-3pm, Filoli Historic House & Museum
Sept 26-28, America in Bloom 2024 Symposium, Columbus & Logan, OH
Garden Tours, Lectures, More. 
Sept 28, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: Lorain Cty, OH
Sept 28, Garden Dialogues, Aspen, CO
10-11:30am MDT, Highlands Retreat, TCLF 

LOOKAHEAD:

October 6-9, ASLA Annual Conference,"Insight," Washington DC
October 11-13, APLD International Landscape Design Conference, Charleston, SC
October 18, Perennial Plant Conference, Swarthmore, PA & ONLINE

Books: Gardens for Outdoor Living

 Gardens to remember are those that integrate the essential character of the inside residence with the landscape outdoors. And landscape architect Edmund Hollander is an award-winning expert who always finds the perfect relationship between interiors and exteriors, whether it's a small space, a rooftop in an urban setting, a country retreat, or a home with stunning seaside views.

In "The Landscape of Home," (Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2024),  23 of Hollander's recent projects are profiled, with essays, photographs, and landscape plans for each one. As designer Bunny Williams says in the Foreword to the book, Hollander's choices of hard surfaces are "always sensitive to the materials used on the house, and the details of the landscape design are always totally compatible with the architecture.  Ed paints with the palette of the plants and sculpts with the forms of trees and shrubs.  Whether it is a meadow with mown paths or a formal parterre, the gardens he creates seem in total harmony with the house and the land." 

Hollander leaves nothing to chance when designing.  He consults with the homeowners, the architects, and the interior designers so that, in his words, "the landscape feels as if it grows directly out of the architecture and the site."  He adds, "The more seamless the interaction between interior and exterior living spaces, the more the ground and the house feel like two hands attached to one head, as if sprung from the same creative source, the more welcoming the landscape of home will be, and the greater its gifts of well-being, refuge, and comfort."

The book is divided into three parts: Home in the Country; Home by the Sea; Home in the City.  And a final addition is his own home in Sag Harbor, New York. 

For one country property, the primary mission was to preserve the site's existing ancient trees.   Hollander calls them "a library of botanical wonders:  magnificent copper beeches, majestic old maple and plane trees, one-hundred-fifty-year-old Japanese maples, fabulous Japanese cypresses, towering cryptomerias -- all old-growth stalwarts, so full of soul and so unexpected on a property that is inland, but still comparatively near the coast." The house was moved to another location and other elements, including roads, pool, tennis court -- were placed to preserve and celebrate views of the trees.

For a rooftop with views of the Statue of Liberty, Hollander created patio and plantings inspired by English country gardens. And for a modern Florida residence with views of the sea, a series of separate gardens connect with each other, and the living areas -- the walks, fences, and terraces, all feature lush tropical plantings that feel both soft and inviting.

Any designer or homeowner will find inspiration and lessons in this book that will encourage the kind of thoughtfulness that can make any garden a place of refuge and joy.

 

Plant Podcast

Plant People podcast. 30 minutes.

Available on all major podcast platforms, cited by Apple Podcasts on its lists of "New and Noteworthy" and "Top Science" podcasts.  Conversations with scientists, gardeners, artists, explorers and others.

Host: Jennifer Bernstein, CEO and William C. Steere Sr. President of the NY Botanical Garden.

For more info and episodes:  https://www.nybg.org/plantpeople