NGC LANDSCAPE DESIGN SCHOOLS & COUNCILS SPRING 2012 NEWSCAPE
From the Editor: Spring Gardens This issue is packed with terrific information. I hope that the photos of spring gardens will be welcome. Please be sure to forward this to a your Consultants. I look forward to hearing from many more of you by August 1, 2012 for inclusion in our Autumn 2012 issue. We would all love to hear about your projects, meetings and schools. You are all doing so much; we can all use new ideas. All submissions must be original material and may in- clude photographs. Articles should be in Word format and sent as attachments to E- mails with “Newscape” in the The Rock Garden at New York Botanical Garden. subject line. More spring garden photos inside! -Victoria Bergesen Photo below: Vizcaya, Miami, FL. Photos by Victoria Bergesen
OBJECTIVES OF THE LANDSCAPE Develop a contingent of qualified DESIGN STUDY PROGRAM Landscape Design Consultants to serve in such Develop a greater sense of appreciation, decision-making areas of public life as providing pride, and knowledge about our private and leadership, educational programs, scholarships, public gardens. awards, and promoting better landscape design. Become better educated to make changes in our surroundings so that they will be more beautiful, useful, convenient, ecologically sound, and easily maintained. Stimulate interest in all phases of landscape design, including community planning that will affect all of our lives.
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NEWS FROM YOUR NATIONAL BOARD MEMBERS From our National depending on one’s Consultant Chairman: status, when attending a Bi- or Soon we welcome the beauty of Tri-Refresher. spring. The plans for changes I want to make in my landscape It is important that the are being formulated. paperwork following Course or Attending Landscape Design Refresher completion be School in April here in New handled within the required Jersey is on my calendar. six-week period. Rosters and Throughout the states, similar Attendance Summary Forms Schools are scheduled and will must go to the appropriate stimulate interest in the many Accrediting Chairmen and to phases of landscape design, the Schools Secretary at NGC including community gardens headquarters in St. Louis along and rain gardens. My sincere with $5 accreditation fee for all thanks to all the chairmen of desiring credit. Landscape Design Schools and Landscape Design Councils The three Landscape Design who contribute so much to the Accrediting Chairmen are: success of our Schools and the Pat Clayes (South Atlantic, Program. Deep South and Central Regions) P.O. Box 757, Lake Victoria Bergesen, LDS Arrowhead, CA 92352-0757 Consultants’ Councils and [email protected] Newsletter Chairman, and I A ison Beards (South Central, have been working on Rocky Mountain, Pacific clarifying, updating, and Regions) 34 High St., Belfast, improving the Landscape ME 04915(Nov.-April) Design Schools Operation 101 Ryan Rd., Northport, ME Guide and hope to receive its 04849-3457(May-Oct.) approval at National [email protected] Convention in Buffalo in May. Jacqueline Connell (Ne w England and Central Atlantic If you are planning to attend Regions) Note: currently, NGC Convention in Buffalo, please use Jacqueline’s consider taking the Tri- Massachusetts address: 982 Refresher planned for Sunday, Home Rd., Great Barrington, May 20th. An impressive MA 01230-9309 collection of gardens and [email protected] landscapes are on the itinerary. Katie Roth, Schools Secretary Please do read the article here National Garden Clubs, Inc., by Multiple Refresher 4401 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, Top two: New York Botanical Gardens; Bronx, Chairman, Libby Coffey, MO 63110-3492 NY; Boerner Botanical Gardens, Milwaukee, regarding credit one can obtain [email protected] WI; Kingwood, Mansfield, OH. Photos By Victoria Bergesen.
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I strongl y urge al l state refreshing in a Tri- or Bi- Students and Consultants are Landscape Design Chairman to Refresher. encouraged to read and share keep their paper work and information about Landscape records in order. If they are not Credit may be o ffered to Master Design Schools and other NGC continuing in the position, this Consultants in each of the schools in schools that is published in The is most important. Please help which he/she is a Master. A other National Gardener and Keeping in and guide your successor as they re eshing Consultants sha receive To u c h (your garden club learn procedures. credit for one school only. president receives Keeping i n Touch – ask her/him to share the When the ne wl y updated If you are a Master in all three news with you and your club ). Operations Guide becomes schools, you may receive credit Re visions in the school available, do order a copy to for all three schools. If you are a programs and requirements are pass on. Transition will go so Master in ESS and GSS but not officially published in Th e smoothly this way. in LDS, then you may receive National Gardener in addition to credit for ESS and GSS if you so interesting and educational A reminder to the state choose or LDS only. articles about varied aspects of Landscape Design Schools landscape design. chairmen: Please send me a After attending and enjoying an copy of “Event Announcement” outstanding learning experience Your state and national Form LDS 1 when you register in NGC schools, it is very volunteer landscape design (and your School with the NGC meaningful to continue your other schools) chairmen put in a Schools Secretar y at NGC education by refreshing in what great deal of work to bring you Head-quarters. Copies also go you have learned. There is these educational opportunities to the Reading Chairman, Jo’C always something new and and to administer the programs. Walker, and the Instructors’ exciting going on in our Many thanks for all they do. We Chairman, Becky Linney. gardening world. are here to answer your questions and help you realize The Landscape Design Schools Elizabeth K. Coffey, Chairman the many benefits of Committee is here to help you. Multiple Re eshers, NGC participating in these programs. All are listed on the NGC web Keep studying and refreshing in site, www.gardenclub.org, under NGC SCHOOLS Landscape Design (there is no Schools>Landscape Design> end to the opportunities to Forms. Greetings fellow Landscape learn more ). And if you have Design Consultants, not already done so, expand I wish you all many happy your horizons by attending gardening days. Thank you for supporting the Environmental Studies and informative NGC Landscape Gardening Study Schools. The Jane Bersch, Chairman Design School program and schools are extensivel y congratulations for all you do to interrelated. LISTEN UP stimulate interest in all phases Greg Pokorski, NGC ES, GS and REFRESHING of landscape design and to CONSULTANTS! encourage, implement and LD Schools Coordinator publicize projects that make our There ha ve been many communities more beautiful and questions concerning eligibility sustainable. to receive multiple credits when
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person who sends fees to NGC Headquarters and all forms and correspondence relating to the educational program (i.e., courses and refreshers) to the NGC Landscape Design Committee. If you follow this rule, you will save this chairman and others a lot of headaches and time.
TIPS FOR FILING Also, for those states that have a SCHOOL PAPERWORK Landscape Design School Chairman and a Credentials Event Announcements from the Chairman, please share all South Atlantic, Deep South and information that you receive from Central Regions are flying into my NGC and the NGC LDS mailbox from Katie Roth, NGC Chairmen with each other. In Schools Secretary! Thank you to some states, this is not being done: the states which have held, are creating confusion and incorrect currently holding or will hold record keeping. landscape design schools in the future. Please do not hesitate to Finally, you may be unaware of the contact me if you have any fact that I am a past California questions about your state’s LDS Chairman. I made a few landscape design school records. If mistakes on NGC forms during my my records cannot help you, then I term as California’s LDS Chairman can ask Katie Roth to help. Katie and had a few questions, but I is on top of everything! If you are learned from those mistakes and unable to reach me via telephone from the answers to my questions. (909-337-6911) at my main home in I went on to do a good job for the San Bernardino Mountains of California thanks to the help of California, I am most likely at my the past NGC Accrediting desert home (760-773-0516) in Chairman for the Pacific Region, Palm Desert, California. However, Sally DeSimone. As your NGC the best way to reach me is via LDS Accrediting Chairman, I want Email: [email protected] I check to be like Sally DeSimone and help my email on a daily basis. your state’s LDS Chairman do a GREAT job! PLEASE NOTE: All forms to NGC and NGC LDS Chairmen Pat Clayes, LDS Accrediting are to come from the State Chairman (South Atlantic, Deep Landscape Design School South, Central) Chairmen, not om the local school chairmen/ registrars. It is the State Landscape Design School Photos top to bottom: Brooklyn Chairman’s responsibility to send Botanical Garden, NY (2); Fe owes- forms and information to NGC. Riverside Metro Park, Youngstown, See Page 7 of the current LDS OH; Elm Bank, Massachusetts Operations Guide which explains that Horticultural Society, We esley, MA. the State LDS Chairman is the one Photos By Victoria Bergesen
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WHY LDS SCHOOL? STATE NEWS world’s first botanical gardens Many people ask me, “What to be developed over a sanitary benefits will I get from this CALIFORNIA landfill. The success of this course?” This past year was incredible reclamation effort is apparent An in-depth study of for our Landscape Design in the peaceful shady groves landscape design Schools. Congratulations are and gardens of spectacular A comprehensive under- due to the 40 new Landscape color en-joyed by visitors standing for creating and Design Consultants who throughout the year. The evaluating your own landscape completed all four courses of presentation of this award Insights to help with design the two schools offered in 2011. during a Landscape Design for your club’s civic projects Taking advantage of the new School is particularly Skills to judge completed alternatives for course appropriate because, as landscapes for awards and scheduling, these two schools members of the CGCI contests were completed in less than the Landscape Design Council, Knowledge to assist with previous two-year requirement. these new Consultants are awards briefs CGCI LDS Series 24, encouraged to recognize and Confidence to serve as sponsored by the Costa Verde honor good land-scape designs guardians and consultants of District, was completed in less and land use. land use and outdoor beauty than one year. While the 25th Ideas to present landscape- Series, a fast-tracked “noble The Colfax Garden Club was related presentations to experiment” sponsored by the the dedicated and energetic instruct and encourage others Colfax Garden Club, was sponsor of Series 25, held in in good landscape practice successfu y completed in six weeks! Colfax. Kudos go to the School Knowledge to serve and co-chairs, Myrtle Findley and assist on civic boards for parks, The Costa Verde Series was Bili Winter, as well as the rest tree commissions, planning, held at the South Coast of their committee for their and zoning Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes dedication and efforts in After passing two courses, an Peninsula, with an attendance successfully organizing and invitation to become a pro- of over 40. The school added 22 completing this school. We visional member of a Land- new Landscape Design gained 18 new consultants and 2 scape Design Consultant Consultants and refreshed 5. refreshed during this school. Council which enables you to: attend special educational During the fourth course, we By holding these two schools in programs presented by presented a Landscape Design the same year (in both the professionals; tour public and Commendation to the South north and south of the state) private garden, practice Coast Botanic Gar-den (SCBG) we allowed those missing a evaluation of landscape designs; in recognition for good land course to complete the support profession of landscape use. The SCBG was realized requirements necessary to design through scholarships through the cooperative efforts become Land scape Design Most of all, fun and life-long of Los Angeles County, the Consultants or to refresh their friendships with wonderful like- SCBG Foundation and the credentials. While there are no minded people community. It is a public new Landscape Design Schools botanic garden containing over currently being planned, Barbara Shepard, Garden Club of 200,000 species of plants from discussions are under-way Ohio, Landscape Design Schools around the world. The 87-acre regarding the possibility of Chairman public garden is one of the holding Series 26 & 27.
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managing good land use at the 101 Hollywood Freeway tunnel and embankment at Lemon Grove Avenue and Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, CA. As the sides of the Kingsley tunnel had always been plagued with gang tagging and trash, the officers wanted to improve the landscape around the tunnel. The officers brought the Photo om istockphoto.com community together via a town hall meeting and asked for KENTUCKY support: to remove graffiti and develop a simple beautification The Kentucky Landscape project to bring beauty to the Design Consultants Councils community. With the help of ongoing project assists with the community, Cal-Trans landscaping the grounds of our (California Department of State Headquarters, the The South Coast Botanic Garden Transportation) and the Nannine Clay Wallis House in provided unique opportunities for Assistance League of Southern Paris, KY. The grounds contain refreshing lunch breaks and California, phase 1 of the old-growth trees as well as inspiring landscape desig n project was completed, many memorial trees chosen for including anti-weed barriers, unique attributes. The lawn is Alexis Slafer, Landscape Design mulch, tunnel entry fencing and an arboretum, which includes a Schools Chairman plantings of Bougainvi ea spinosa beautiful conifer. Many groups (Fragrant Bougainvillea) and visit and are given a booklet California Landscape Thevetia peruviana (Yellow illustrating and describing the Oleander). These plants’ root Design Council plants. Council member Judy systems will prevent erosion on Ferrell is the Arboretum Chair. Since summer, the California the slopes. According to Cal- The Kentucky Council is LDC awarded 8 Landscape Trans, both plants are drought- sponsoring Landscape Design Design Commendations, one resistant. School, Course I on September Award of Merit in Landscape At our last, meeting Jeffrey F. 19-21, 2012. The location is Architecture and 3 Certificates Gamboni, L.A., presented a Warren County Extension of Appreciation or various PowerPoint presentation of his Office, 3132 Nashville Road, landscape projects throughout landscape project for Stockton Bowling Green, KY 42101. California. More awards are in Beautiful at the Victory Park Please contact Jim Mullen, the works to be given at Rose Garden in Stockton, Kentucky LDS Chair, CGCI’s Winter Board Meeting California. A garden/landscape 270-522-4130, in Pismo Beach where our tour, via PowerPoint, is planned [email protected] or council will meet. for the council’s upcoming Martha Morgan, Kentucky Two Los Angeles County police meeting in Pismo Beach, CA. Landscape Design Consultants officers were given Certificates Chair, 270-781-5695, of Appreciation in recognition Pat Clayes, CGCI DLC Chairman of their outstanding skill in
PAGE 6 NGC LANDSCAPE DESIGN SCHOOLS & COUNCILS SPRING 2012 [email protected] one of our scholarship winners gaining Continuing Education for more information. was our guest. She discussed Credits for their county MG her plans in landscape programs. It is worth noting Martha Morgan, Kentucky Council architecture. She's on our radar that many garden club members Chairman as a future garden club member are also Master Gardeners. and Landscape Design After their presentations, Bruce MARYLAND Consultant! Crawford and Steve Kristoph had wonderful plant material on hand The Federated Garden Clubs of Diana Bonner, LDC Chairman for eager students to purchase. A Maryland, Inc. Landscape new addition to the teaching staff Design Council is very proud NEBRASKA this year was Kirk Brown joining that it achieved its goal: award us from Pennsylvania where he has winners in each of our five Nebraska is excited to be taught for several years in that districts. The projects included: hosting our first Landscape state’s LDS program. Landscape two Habitat For Humanity Design School beginning Oct. Architects and husband/wife team, locations, landscaping at public 12-13, 2012 in Kearney, Denise and Eric Mattes, returned libraries, an elementary school, Nebraska. with their well-developed Power a historical house, a veterans' I'm indebted to other states for Point presentation and Rutgers cemetery, a hospice, a homeless their brochures to help me professor, Seiko Goto, also returned. shelter and a new visitors formulate our own. center. The winners of the Course IV will be April 17, 18 and $1,450 cash awards will be Alice Hemsath 20, 2012 and we’re counting on announced at our March annual Landscape Design Chairman another successful program! meetings. We look forward to more winners in 2012, NEW JERSEY Nancy Schmaltz, LDS Chairman rewarding clubs for their hard OHIO work in beautifying our Course III, Series 16 was held communities. on April 5 and 6, 2011 at Holly Salute to a Grand Lady of House on the campus of Landscape Design The Council used its new state- Rutgers Gardens. Registration Luisa Mae Bird of-the-art projector at its far exceeded 2010 with 59 (1925—2011) September meeting and after students attending (up from 44 In September we lost our first lady the program on night blooming last year), including a few of the Garden Club of Ohio gardens, visited the gardens of traveling from Cumberland Landscape Design School three members. We are in the County in South Jersey, one program. Luisa was a member of GCO’s Series I in 1970 at Canton, process of converting our many student from Connecticut and Ohio. She qualified as an LDC slide programs onto one Refresher from Maryland. 19 students took the exam. Accredited Landscape Design DVD's and creating new Consultant in 1972. She was programs to be made available, Opening up Landscape Design passionate about the importance along with a LD Consultant, School to Master Gardeners of landscape design education in for garden club programs. and announcing this program the NGC Schools and at Ohio statewide through the MG State University. She chaired our We have contributed to our Council’s Scholarship Program for State Coordinator at Rutgers two state scholarship programs many years, befriending OSU University resulted in 33 Master and at our December meeting, faculty and students. Gardeners attending and
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Luisa was the model of the thirty years. She was Master include a speaker on rock traditional garden club lady, Landscape Design Consultant, a gardens Quail Hollow has always perfectly coifed and Master Flower Show Judge, a beautiful display gardens and a manicured. She was famous for member of Ohio Judges Council wonderful selection of unusual her color-coordinated outfits, and a founding member of the plants including deliberately wearing Ohio Landscape Design shoes of two different colors! Consultants Council. Our geographic diversity Even when she had trouble walking in later years she wore We all miss Luisa’s generosity, requires some members to high heels. Yet she never hesitated enthusiasm and love. travel for hours, so we meet to pull over to the side of the road only twice a year. We look and plunge into the brush, Barbara Shepard , Ohio LDS forward to increasing Council secateurs in hand, looking for Chairman membership and attendance. plant material! The old saying, “A chain is only OLDCC as strong as its weakest link" is very true. Ohio Landscape Design Consultants Council’s goals are Joyce Roth, OLDCC President
To educate our Council Ohio Landscape Design members to provide outreach School to our communities, local commissions and park boards. Course 1 Series XIII was held October 6-7 with the examin- To assist our communities ation Oct. 8, 2011 at Natorp’s through Beautification Garden Center Meeting Room Contests. We were all inspired by her in Mason, Ohio. We had 44 passion, enthusiasm, and total in attendance: GCO To support and encourage knowledge of floral design, Member Students 18; NGC horticulture, landscaping and the landscape students through our Member Students (our delight- environment. It was her way with scholarship program. ful sisters from Kentucky) 7; people that we will remember Non-Member Students 7; Staff, most. After talking with her, we Our October 2011 OLDCC Instructors, and Guests 12. felt as though there was nothing meeting was held at Marvin's Thirty two (32) students took beyond our reach. What a gift Gardens, an organic nursery the test and all passed. We had she had! And how generously she near Lebanon (Southern Ohio). two GCO members refreshing shared it with us. Owner Marvin Duren spoke to receive Master status-Mary about native trees suitable for Luisa was a member of Belle Ann Ferguson-Rich and suburban gardens. By-laws Fleur, Serendipity, and Dianna Mullins. We have 67 Worthington Hills Garden Clubs. were discussed and partially accredited consultants: 25 are She served as NGC Central updated. Masters, 13 are emeritus. Atlantic Regional Director Course II will be held in April The next OLDCC meeting will (1997-8), Garden Club of Ohio 2012 and CourseIII in October President (1976-7) and as a Golden be held on April 21,2012 at the Circle Member of the NGC Quail Hollow Nursery in 2012. See listings at the end of the Board, she had served in many Hartville, Ohio (Northern newsletter. capacities on that Board for over Ohio). Our program will
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State Chairman JoAnn available from LDS Chairman Goldman, Donna Davis, 64 Bryant Davis [email protected] or Lane, Saint Mary’s, WV 26170. 206-362-3201. Phone/Fax 304 684 3136. E- mail: Washington Consultants [email protected]. Council visited Soos Creek Garden in Auburn last September. The 23-acre public Ohio LDS, Mason, OH. Photo by space is comprised of many Barbara Shepard. garden rooms with diverse plantings and its easements WASHINGTON protect the salmon habitat in The Chinook District of the the creek. Council membership Washington State Federation is open to all NGC Accredited
of Garden Clubs (WSFGC) Consultants and Provisional n invites you to attend Consultants from the three Bergese Victoria by Photo NY. Bronx ,
Landscape Design School NGC Schools: Landscape, Course III, April 24-26, 2012 at Environment and Gardening Hi Wave the Normandy Park Com- Study. We collect dues, $20 munity Club, 1500 Shorebook from a consultant in two or LANDSCAPE DESIGN Dr, Normandy Park, WA. Cost: more areas, $10 for one field of SCHOOLS $60 for two days; $35 for one study. The money funds day; $5 for the exam, refresher WSFGC awards for a Garden CONNECTICUT: New Haven or reinstatement. Instructors Club Growing Project, Course II, March 27-28, 2012 Chairman: Leslie Martino, include a University of Landscape Design projects and 203-389-4434 Washington professor of Recycling. The Council meets at least twice a year to continue Landscape Architecture, a well- GEORGIA: Augusta studies about the earth, known Pacific Northwest Course IV, May 4-5, 2012 Horticulturist, and local gardening and landscape design Chairman Jane A. Whiteman Landscape Architects and through lectures, workshops, 404-252-4473 Designers. You may bring your discussions and tours. Contact [email protected] own lunch or order lunch no Lana Finegold at: later than April 12 for $11. lanafi[email protected] or KENTUCKY: Bowling Green Coffee, tea and treats will be 425-747-5742. Course I: September 19-21, 2012 served throughout the day. State Chairman: Martha Morgan Please register by March 31 to WEST VIRGINIA 270-781-5695 a void a $10 late fee. West Virginia Garden Clubs [email protected] Registration brochure available will sponsor Landscape Design MARYLAND: Derwood at www.wagardenclubs.com or School, Course II, Series X, on May 23 through May 25, 2012. Course IV: Sept. 19-21, 2012 contact the local Chairman, State Co-Chairmen: The school will be held on the Debbie Skow, Dianne Gregg [email protected] or Evansdale Campus of West Vir- 301-299-6465; 206-248-4313. ginia University in Morgan- Paula Knepper town, WV. Information is 301-424-7582
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MASSACHUSETTS: WASHINGTON: Normandy Wellesley Park Course III, November 1-3, 2012 Course III, April 24-6, 2012 Chairman: Jane O’Sullivan Chairman: JoAnn Goldman 781-659-4423 206-362-3201 [email protected] [email protected]
MICHIGAN: Ludington WEST VIRGINIA: Course II, April 19-20, 2012 Morgantown State Chairman: Terry Harding Course II, May 23-5, 2012 (231)947-0568 State Chairman: Donna Davis [email protected] 304-684-3136 [email protected] MONTANA: Helena Course I, March 16-18, 2012 REFRESHERS Chairman: Mary J. Olsen 406-266-5695 FLORIDA: Gainesville Tri-Refresher, June 19-21, 2012 NEBRASKA: Kearney Chairman: Claudia Bates Course I, October 12-13, 2012 352-317-2831 Chairman: Alice Hemsath 308-224-3771 NEW YORK: Buffalo [email protected] Tri-Refresher, May 20, 2012 Chairman: Joan Peard NEW JERSEY: E. Brunswick 716-634-1353 Course IV, April 17, 18, 20, 2012 State Chairman: Nancy Schmaltz A Postscript from the Editor 732-741-1943 [email protected] We have nine schools and two refreshers before the August 1 OHIO: Mason deadline for the fall issue of Course II, April 12-14, 2012 Newscape. We hope to hear all State Chairman: Barbara Shepard about them. Please take some 614-890-4627 pictures! As you can see, some of [email protected] our pages need photos to break them up a bit. OHIO: Springfield It is so easy to shoot pictures Course III, October 11-12, 2012 these days with digital cameras. State Chairman: Barbara Shepard Try to show some action, not just (614)890-4627 people sitting. Those of you [email protected] giving Course IV, have a great opportunity to show students The Japanese Garden at the VIRGINIA: Gloucester landscape judging. Refreshers Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Course III, March 29-30, 2012 always include some wonderful New York was designed and Chairman: Bill Smoot landscapes: please share them. constructed by Takeo Shiota in 757-393-4617 Councils can send in photos of 1914-15. It remains a popular [email protected] their projects or their meeting spot for contemplation. places. Photos by Victoria Bergesen Victoria Bergesen, Editor
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