Trees are the most expensive and valuable structural elements, and are often misunderstood, to their detriment and our loss. Attendees will gain an understanding of how regenerative landscape design can mitigate habitat loss and climate change through native plantings and organic land practices.ĭirty Little Secrets, What Every Tree Wishes Every Designer and Installer Knew Join Nadia as she shares her philosophy that both supports the regeneration of landscapes and shapes her design aesthetic for bio-diverse landscapes. Nadia Malarkey, Nadia Malarkey Garden Design Regenerating Suburbia, One Garden at a Time She will introduce you to an innovative form of planting design that works with natural principles and marries horticulture with ecology. Known for her passionate advocacy of plant-driven design, Claudia West is a leading voice in the emerging field of ecological planting design. Join us as we dig deep into inspiring design principles derived from wild plant communities and learn to create successful planting systems that provide essential ecosystem functions and contribute to our quality of life. Great design that follows successful planting strategies is an essential part of the solution. However, many native plantings that focus on ecological benefits suffer for aesthetic and functional challenges and fail to inspire the public. Creating more ecological and functional landscapes in our cities and suburbs is urgently needed. Our planet is rapidly losing the ecosystems and plants that sustain us and life on earth. Scott Grams, ILCA Executive Director 8:45 – 10:00 a.m. INTRODUCTIONīrandon Losey, Sustainable & Ecological Landscaping Committee Chairman Program will be submitted to LACES for 5.5 CE’s for Landscape Architects. Practitioners will discover real-world solutions to the industry’s most pressing issues, and gain key insights into the most cutting edge trends in the sustainable landscape movement. How do designers and architects consider establishment and maintenance in all aspects of the design process? How does a landscape contractor execute the original vision and intentions of the design through the installation and maintenance process? We’ll be exploring how this process would benefit from more strategic cross-collaboration between various disciplines, and how this collaboration ultimately translates to a healthy, economically stable, and resilient landscape. This year’s theme addresses the common “Design, Build, Maintain” landscape industry process. Suggested donation is $5, seniors are free.Are you passionate about approaching the landscape and landscaping in a more sustainable and ecologically focused manner? Attend Impact to be inspired, understand why, and learn practical strategies which can immediately be adopted. It’s a self-guided tour of 50+ home gardens in this community west of Wrigley Field. Any time something seems simple, that usually means there is something pretty major that has not been thought of.Īnd speaking of garden walks, I am told that the North Center Neighborhood Garden Walk will be this Sunday, June 23rd. Have you ever taken part in a garden walk or garden day? Have any suggestions or words of wisdom for me, things I may not have thought of? I ask this because as far as I can tell, what I’m planning seems pretty simple. The location is 2000 Cleveland Street, Evanston. I’ll have a handout available with a plant list, and maybe some related information. I thought it would be fun to have a day when the garden would be thrown open to neighbors, readers of this blog, or anybody else who feels like coming over and poking around.
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I have my hands full with the beds and borders.Īnd there are corners here and there that are kind of rough.Įven so, there are a lot of people who have expressed an interest in our garden, what we have planted, and how we keep it more or less under control. (Actually, I don’t mind the clover or violets.) It’s not that I wouldn’t like a nicer lawn, it’s just that lawn is a very low priority.
They are an amalgam of white clover, violets, creeping charlie, plantain, and bits of actual grass here and there. My little bits of lawn, for example, are a mess. 2012 Wild Ones garden tour in our garden.
That’s just as well, since I don’t think my garden is quite what they are looking for.
I’ve made inquiries about being included in the Evanston Garden Walk, but never heard back. Also, I’ll admit, it provided a certain amount of ego gratification. The Wild Ones garden tour arrives at the Garden In A City, July 14, 2012 Unfortunately, it looks like that tour isn’t happening this year. The tour was sponsored by a local chapter of a group called, without irony, The Wild Ones, promoters of native plants in home landscapes. Our garden was on a garden tour in 2012 and a couple of years before that.
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