$25.00 (Member Price) / $25.00 (At The Door) / $25.00 (Non-Member Price)
with Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer-Ogden, horticultural consultants and garden designers whose work includes both public and private garden spaces across the country. They have introduced several dozen plants to the nursery trade and are each the author of three books, including Lauren’s “The Undaunted Garden,” named one of the best 100 gardening books of the 20th century. The couple has co-authored a new book to be published by Timber Press in the fall of 2008.
What makes a garden transcendent, ecologically intelligent and deeply satisfying? Scott and Lauren argue that the answer is to use plants as equal elements in the conceptual design of a garden, rather than as subordinates to a design mandate-perhaps even allowing plants to be the starting point of the design. Modernistic garden styles that give architecture and artifact priority over the personality of particular plant choices have lost much of what gardens can offer: infinite complexity, ability to connect us with the natural world and, most importantly, the chance for an intimate relationship with the garden. With examples from diverse situations, Scott and Lauren show how plant-driven design meets the challenges of drought, soil, climate and site specifics, while creating enduringly beautiful and meaningful places that invite a powerful, primordial connection between person and garden.
A book signing will follow the lecture.
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