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The Designer • Discover how to care for the environment in your own garden. • Find APLD members in your community using our online directory. 5 Letter from the Editor 24 Landscape Designer of the Year Interview • View stunning images of the 6 Letter from our President James Doyle Design Associates - featured work of APLD members. Greenwich, Connecticut 37 APLD Student Spotlight 7 Board of Directors An interview with Jing Zhang, the 2010 International Student Landscape Design 8 2010 International Landscape Awards program winner Cover and Contents Page Photos: Design Award Winners 38 Allied Members 2010 International Landscape Designer Thirty-eight entries from three countries... of the Year James Doyle Design Associates, Check out the 21 winning designs. Greenwich, CT – Harmony Farm Project Letter from the Editor Dear Members, As usual, our fall issue is dedicated to our annual International Landscape Design Award Winners. This year, because of an abundance of excellent entries, the entire issue is devoted to our winners. We’re running photos of the gardens, as well as an image of each “plan,” descriptions of each garden and a comment or two from the panel of judges. I thank Jeanne Weber, president of our Pennsylvania-Delaware chapter, for assistance in editing this issue. Finally, we‘ve lost a member or two on our Communications Committee, so if any of you out there with editing, writing and/or public relations experience would like to join us, please let us know. In the meantime, please keep the contributions to the magazine coming. Jane Berger, APLD APLD Communications Chair Fall 2010 I apld.org 5 Letter from the President Fall is in the air as I write this at the end of August for the Fall the parameters spelled out by the technical committee. This Designer. I can smell the crisp air, feel the changing angle of the page in essence is our own “face” within APLD and the Find a sun and see the hint of gold, red and brown in the soon to be Designer function which is always visible no matter what other turning leaves. It is harvest time: the apples are ripening, the page a person is visiting within the site. lavender ready to snip, and the smell of garlic is wafting up from Gilroy, CA when the wind turns northward. This addresses a few things: almost 40 percent of APLD members don't have a website - now we will have a web presence without It's also time to look at some of the major accomplishments having to have one; the individual member page gives each of we have achieved this year in the name of APLD. I’m assuming us an opportunity to in fact “sell” ourselves via a photographic you have had a chance to read my letter in the September issue “avatar” and quotes as well as delineating our expertise within of Design Online; this is meant to highlight a few of the many our area of practice; the consumer friendly part of the website projects. has been beefed up and will yield more referrals through the website so it's a win-win. A major boost in our public exposure has come as a result of our investment in hiring a public relations firm, Garden Media Lastly, I want to encourage all of you to become part of the Group (GMG). For the last two years, our landscape design award leadership of APLD, at the district, chapter or international level. winners have been featured in major publications, the designer’s We need you, your energy, your ideas, your creativity. Tom local media outlets and trade publications. Margie Grace’s 2009 Wilhelm, APLD, president of MA’s APLD chapter wrote recently, award winning design was chosen for the cover of Lawn & Garden “I feel board participation is incredibly educational. From my Retailer. meeting with state legislators on practice law, to attending allied green industry association meetings, where my board and GMG estimates that we have received media exposure worth I continue to raise the profile of APLD within the industry, it's over $1,222,138 if we were to buy advertising in the same incredibly enriching and enlightening. I think we give 'education' newspapers, magazines, radio, television and websites that have a very narrow definition when a talk on sculpture in the garden, featured APLD. They invite each of us to share our good news, or low voltage lighting effects gets greater priority than operating high resolution pictures (before and after) of gardens we have in the wide breadth of information that comes with board created, and story ideas with GMG. We are invited to contact membership.” Kathleen Hassinger at ([email protected]) I couldn’t have said it better! Go for it! It will enrich your life and Another area that benefits us all is the work of Laura Kuhn, our the life of APLD. And in the end, you will feel as I do now: that it legislative chair. Many members - and some non-members – write has been a great privilege to serve APLD and our profession. Laura with specific questions regarding their right to practice as landscape designers. Some of the questions she receives are straightforward, and for these she provides links, basic information, a bit of perspective and support. Her committee is studying the costs and benefits of a subscription to a legislative tracking service. Her knowledge and responsiveness to chapters Patricia St. John, APLD who have experienced threats to their right to practice has been APLD President very much appreciated this year. It is quite possibly the most important service APLD can offer its members—the vigilance in protecting our right to practice. Our new website, which you will have all had a chance to experience by the time this magazine is published, is another significant milestone for APLD. Susan Cohan, APLD, and her technical committee have spent countless hours with a web designer to develop a whole new look and function. The new website is consumer friendly, easy to use and most importantly has the ability to highlight each designer. Every member through the “Find a Designer” function will have their own landing page. The Find a Designer function is user driven via “miles” from zip code and a map will pop up that will have arrows to each listing. Members will be in charge of what is on their landing page within 6 Fall 2010 I apld.org Board of Directors Join APLD online! President Sponsorship Committee Chair Patricia St. John APLD Colleen Hamilton St. John Landscapes Bloomin' Landscape Designs 1635 Le Roy Avenue 7122 Willey Way Berkeley, CA 94709-1106 Carmichael, CA 95608 (510) 848-5673 (916) 961-0191 [email protected] [email protected] President-Elect Awards Committee Chair Bobbie Schwartz FAPLD William Healy APLD http://www.facebook.com/ Bobbie's Green Thumb LLC Healy Design, Inc. group.php?gid=26360731469&ref=ts 18405 Van Aken Boulevard 4945 Granger Road Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Akron, OH 44333 (216) 752-9449 (330) 606-3273 [email protected] [email protected] Secretary/Treasurer Legislative Affairs Chair Debby Ruskin APLD Laura Kuhn Ruskin Gardens Co. Laura Kuhn Design Consultation http://www.linkedin.com/ 174 Walter Hays Drive P.O. Box 468 groups?gid=667277&trk=hb_side_g Palo Alto, CA 94303 Arlington, MA 02476 (650) 853-1665 (617) 616-5069 [email protected] [email protected] Immediate Past President Communications Chair Judy Nauseef APLD Jane Berger APLD Judy Nauseef Landscape Design The Garden Design Group D.C. LLC Landscapedia 3962 James Avenue S.W. 1413 Floral Street N.W. http://www.landscapedia.info/ Iowa City, IA 52246-8515 Washington, DC 20012 directory.php?directoryID=2615 (319) 337-7032 (202) 723-3605 [email protected] [email protected] Education Chair International Program Chair Dr.