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| Summertime and the living is easy—except for gardeners! This course will focus on a new approach to garden design based on gentle observation and ecologically-nuanced practices. Eco-elegant gardeners garden less and observe the natural world more—from frogs jumpin' to the growth of selected native plants (sometimes known as weeds!). Style and elegance—as the title implies—are not sacrificed to the regime of ecology.
Garden and landscape design is both an art and a métier, coupling all the elements and passions of art with the challenges of hard work. The workshop will begin with an introduction to designing in the outside world; in the afternoon we’ll move to your, or PAAM's, yard. With tape measures, trowels, transits, and compass, we will work in teams to map selected open spaces as we notice such site factors as wind, soil, slope and drainage, actual number of sunlight hours per day, and, of course, the neighbors.
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| Along with spending some time outdoors looking at landscapes and thinking about garden space, the workshop will include discussions on how local plant groups and local materials can be used for construction. Students will devote workshop time singly, in group, and also with me, to developing a design for their own landscape. The goal will be a garden built around your concept that is ecologically sound while remaining elegant, in whatever your chosen style. On Friday morning we’ll discuss your designs and determine directions for your next steps. Traditional Cape Cod gardeners are welcome, as the sessions will be applicable to a variety of sites and environments. |
| Priscilla Randall is a Registered Landscape Architect who worked for many years in this area and taught at the Radcliffe Seminars. For the past eight years however, she has lived in France with an additional two years spent in Bangkok teaching at Chulalongkorn University in the Department of Landscape Architecture. She is primarily a working designer but continues to teach courses at the Landscape Institute, Harvard University. On Boston's North Shore her seawall project Arc Seawalls was sold as in situ artwork, and photographed for John Dixon Hunt's recent book entitled Greater Perfections. In France she has designed a winter garden for the Musée Jacque-marte André and has developed plans for the terrain and two studios belonging to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar and for the studio and eight acres belonging to the Boyle family of London / Glasgow artists. |
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