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Wicker Park Garden Club
Lecture Series – Workshops
2009-10
Native Landscapes - Created -
Conserved - Evolved
Special Thanks to:
Our Lecturers & Workshop Instructors
Chicago Park District - Lecture Room
Nancy Stark - Projector
Meeting
Tomorrow Nationwide AV Rental - AV Screen Rental
To Those Who Contributed to the Lecture Series Design:
Julia Bachrach, Julie Siegel, Brian Shea, Sam Marts,
Denise Browning, Carolyn Ulrich, Joyce Coffee, Mike Nowak, Mary
Eysenbach, Brendan Daley, Jamie Simone
download the
WP Garden Club Lecture Series Brochure
download all the
web
links referred to during the Native Design series
WORKSHOP:
Saturday, October 3 - 10am-12 noon - $15
Wicker
Park Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075
Container
Design for Fall and Winter: Susan Fontana - Thinking
Outside the Pot
With the
arrival of fall and the variable weather that comes with it - it
is often difficult to keep your containers looking great at all
times. In this workshop, Susan will give you ideas how to
choose plants, dried grasses and flowers, and other materials
that will work together to keep your containers looking
colorful, exciting and healthy through the season. Please bring
with you questions that will help you design the containers that
you have at home - think what shape, size and color they are in
determining the final design for your containers.
LECTURE:
Monday, October 5 - 7-8:30 PM -Free - Donations Accepted
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Native
Landscapes - Created - Conserved - Evolved An Historic & Philosophic
Overview of Selected Designers Series Introduction
Doug Wood.
www.wpgarden.org
From the research
he did in designing this series, Doug Wood will give a survey of
the landscape designers who created either 'natural' or 'native'
landscapes, their philosophies, and what may have influenced them to
choose the 'natural' or 'native' approach to design. He will then
focus on early 'natural landscape' designers: Lancelot 'Capability'
Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson. Critiques of the native
designer's work and philosophies will be reviewed including a
discussion of the publications by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. He will
give an overview of the speakers for the series and pose the
questions that we are attempting to answer together in this series.
What can we bring from a study of these designers to our current
landscape designs that are influenced by our knowledge of global
warming and the need to conserve natural resources and yet - create
what we consider to be a sustainable, functional and 'beautiful '
landscape.
LECTURE:
Monday, November 2 - 7-8:30 PM - $8
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com (773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Midwestern
Designers: Landscaping with Nature, Barbara Geiger,
www.barbarageiger.net
Barbara Geiger will explore the roots of today's current interest in
naturalistic and sustainable design through the story of F.L.
Olmsted, O.C. Simonds,
and Jens Jensen.
Barbara Geiger is
Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture at the
Illinois Institute of Technology, and also teaches at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the
Chicago Botanic Garden
and elsewhere. She is writing a biography of influential
Chicago
landscape designer
O.C. Simonds and received her master’s degree in
landscape architecture from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
FOUNTAIN DECORATING SOCIAL
Saturday, November 21 – 10am–4pm – All Welcome
Come and Decorate the Gurgoyle Fountain and Urns
Sponsored by Wicker Park Garden Club & The Care of
Trees
LECTURE
Monday,
December 7 - 7-8:30 PM - $8
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Landscape and
Eco/Psychology, Rinda West,
www.rindawestdesigns.com
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/west.HTM
Rinda West is
the author of Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and
Encounters with the Land (University of Virginia Press).
West will explore the psychological and social consequences of
the human relationship with nature. Now a local landscape
designer, she earned a Ph.D in English at the University of
Leeds, England, and has taught at the University of Chicago,
Oakton Community College, and Christ Church University,
Canterbury. West serves on the boards of MELA and LDA.
LECTURE:
Monday, January 11 - 7-8:30 PM - $8
Wicker Park Field
House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com (773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Designing a
Native Landscape: How to Dispel Misconceptions & Avoid Misuse
Kelsay Shaw,
Possibility Place Nursery, Monee, IL -
www.possibilityplace.com
Kelsay Shaw will
discuss plants that are native to Northern Illinois and will give
example of how they can be successfully incorporated into designs
for all types of sites. From years of experience, his company can
give solid advice on 'What works?,’ can help dispel misconceptions,
and give tips on how to avoid misuse of natives in a landscape
design. Possibility Place Nursery began in 1978 on just 5 acres of
land near Monee, Illinois. The plant material was comprised of
native and non-native trees and shrubs. In 1983 the company began
growing only native trees and shrubs and now they produce native
trees on 55 acres with an additional two acres of trees and shrubs
in five gallon containers. After years of studying, growing and
testing their plants in all kinds of situations, the group has
tweaked every aspect of their growing system to produce plants that
can adapt faster and grow more quickly on all types of sites. Kelsay
is the botanist and sales consultant at Possiblity Place Nursery. He
has a B.S. in botany from Eastern Illinois University and has been
doing work in the industry for the past 17 years. He has taught
classes on native plants and their uses in landscaping, as well as
consulting on larger projects for some of the company's clients.
WORKSHOP:
Saturday, January 16 - 10am-noon - $15 - LIMIT 30
Held in
Wicker Park Home - Address Given to Registered Students
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Propagating Plants from Seeds and Cuttings - Richard Tilley,
Larry Clary,
www.wpgarden.org
Techniques of
when and how to start all plant materials from seed or cuttings
and how to set up an inexpensive growing room in your home.
WORKSHOP:
Saturdays, 10 am-1 pm - 6 Classes - $50 - Limit 35 Students
January
23, 30 - February 6, 13, 20, 27 - Wicker Park Field House
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com (773) 278-9075 Pay at 1st
Class
Sponsored in Part by Parkways Foundation
www.parkways.org
Design
Studies for Your Home & Community Garden Instructors
Doug Wood,
Denise Browning, Leslie Zimmerman, Jim Angrabright, Susan
Fontana, Richard Tilley, Larry Clary, Amy Brinkman
Professional Designers - Instructors:
Gary W. Lehman,
RLA, ASLA (Jan 23)
www.gstudiodesign.net
Sam Marts,
Architect-Landscape Design (Jan 30)
www.timbersmart.com
Julie Siegel,
Landscape Designer (Feb 6)
www.jsiegeldesigns.com
Brian Shea,
Landscape Designer (Feb 13)
www.voltairesgardener.com
Jerry Milewski,
Landscape Architect (Feb 20)
www.americangardensinc.com
You will
learn how to amend the soil, study various plants you can use,
and then learn design principles to be able to complete a design
(drawn to scale with number of plants you will need and amounts
of soil amendments) for your new or enhanced garden. Each week,
students will work with various plant pallets and create
in-class designs for varied landscape needs (sun, shade, rain,
native, and xeriscape gardens). In addition, each student will
complete a design specifically for their home or community
garden by the end of the workshop series. Students can design
for containers or in-ground gardens. Special instruction will be
included on how to design for public spaces and parkways. The
class instructors have designed the Wicker Park Gardens, the
2009 Chicago Flower Show Community Gardens in the Parks Exhibit,
and have instructed gardeners who tend the Wicker Park Gardens
to design their home or community gardens in exchange for their
work.
CLASS WEEKLY
TIME TABLE:
The Guest
Teachers and 8 WPGarden Teachers Circulate and Individually
Assist Students During Entire Class Period.
1. 10-10:30 -
An introduction by the Guest Professional Designers.
2. 10:30-11 -
Presentation of the Plant and Hardscape Pallets of the Day -
During the first five session students will work with 5 plant
and hardscape pallets that can be used in their home designs.
Other plants are also suggested during the discussion of the
home project.
3. 11-11:45 -
In-Class Design of the Day - Students work on a design
assignment incorporating the plant and hardscape pallets of the
day.
4. 11:45-12:15
- Walk around room, view, and critique each others designs.
Here you will present your work to others and obtain critiques
from the entire class.
5. 12:15-1 -
Work and discuss home garden designs with the professional guest
and the 8 WPGarden Teachers - then, get your homework assignment
for the next stage of your home project.
LECTURE:
Monday, February 1 - 7-8:30 PM - $8
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com (773)
278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Jens Jensen:
Maker Of Natural Parks And Gardens Robert Grese, M.S.L.A.
University of
Michigan – Department of Natural Resources and Environment
http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/bgrese
Robert E. Grese,
University of Michigan faculty and author of Jens Jensen: Maker
of natural Parks and Gardens draws on Jensen’s writings and
plans, interviews people who knew him, and analyzes Jensen's
projects to present a clear picture of Jensen’s efforts to enhance
and preserve native landscapes. Jens Jensen was one of America's
greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native
plants and fitting designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks,
roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and
its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme
of modern American landscape design.
Robert Grese’s
teaching and research involve ecologically-based landscape design
and management that respects and heightens awareness of the cultural
and natural history of a region. He is particularly interested in
the restoration and on-going management of urban wilds and the role
such lands can play in promoting environmental literacy and in
re-connecting children and families with nature. He has long been
fascinated by the work of early designers such as Jens Jensen and
Ossian Cole Simonds who borrowed from the native landscape in their
work, and he feels there is much to be learned about their designs
today. He has a growing interest in green roofs and other low
impact design strategies and incorporates native vegetation
borrowing from an understanding of locally native ecosystems.
Lecture:
Monday, March 1 - 7-8:30 PM - $8
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com (773)
278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Alfred
Caldwell - Architecture, Landscape & Nature
Dynamics between
Landscape, Architecture, & People -
Joel Baldin, ASLA,
www.hitchcockdesigngroup.com
How does one
incorporate architecture, landscape, and the needs of those who live
and experience the landscape? Joel Baldin, ASLA, Hitchcock Design
Group, will discuss selected Alfred Caldwell's designs and their
dynamic restorations. Caldwell was the last Prairie School
landscape architect. He worked for and was mentored by Jens Jensen,
was admired by Frank Lloyd Wright, and collaborated with Mies van
der Rohe as an instructor at Illinois Institute of Technology. His
work in Chicago includes Skyline Park at Lake Point Tower, the
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park, and Promontory Point in
Burnham Park. Caldwell was a landscape architect, poet, civil
engineer, architect, city planner, philosopher, and distinguished
professor of architecture during his long life of 95 years.
Joel is a
landscape architect with Hitchcock Design Group in Chicago, Illinois
and has worked on over fifty Chicago Park District parks including
many historic landscapes designed by Jensen, Caldwell, and Frederick
Law Olmsted.
WORKSHOP:
Saturday, March 20 - 10am-noon or 1pm-3pm - $15
Held in
Wicker Park Home - Address Given to Registered Student
Reservations:
wpgarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
Tool
Sharpening Workshop - Richard Tilley, Jim Angrabright, Larry
Clary,
www.wpgarden.org
Learn how to
sharpen your pruners, loppers, shovels, and other hand-held
garden tools. Bring your hand-held tools-- go home with
sharpened tools.
LECTURE & Book
Signing:
Monday, March 22, 7-8:30 PM.
- $8
Wicker Park
Field House - 1425 N. Damen, Chicago
Reservations
for Lecture or Book:
wpgarden@aol.com (773) 278-9075 (Pay at Door)
When Science, Philosophy, and Marketing Collide in the Garden: The
Case of Luther Burbank,
Jane S. Smith -
Adjunct Professor of History – Northwestern University
http://www.history.northwestern.edu/people/smithj.html
BOOKS AVAILABLE AT
LECTURE
Jane S. Smith will
discuss her new book, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank
and the Business of Breeding Plants. A century ago,
Burbank was the most famous gardener on the planet, celebrated as
the creator of the Burbank potato, the Shasta daisy, the Santa Rosa
plum, and hundreds of other new plant varieties, edible and
ornamental. He was also beloved as a sage who could help people
regain their own connection to the natural world. After Burbank's
death, churches put up stained glass windows to honor him, Frida
Kahlo painted his portrait, and a mail-order nursery used his name
to push through the first plant patent legislation.
Today, many people
question the value of scientific breeding, while Burbank's new
creations have lasted long enough to be reclassified as heirloom
varieties. What does this say about changing philosophies of the
natural world and the cultivated garden? How do we reconcile the
call for a native garden with the age-old desire for new and better
plants? And how did a lone inventor like Burbank stay in business
in an age of cut-throat competition?
Prize-winning
author Jane S. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University and is
an Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Park Kids
Grow – The Music Garden
Sponsored in Part by Parkways Foundation
www.parkways.org
Thurs. April
8 – May 27 , 4pm – 5:30 pm – Wicker Park – Ages 5-10
Grow Plants
From Seed - Design a Garden from a Musical Score
Reservations -
8 classes:
wpgarden@aol.com or (773) 278-9075
Special Event:
Plant Sale
& Workshops in the Park
Saturday,
Sunday, May 1 and May 2 - 10am-4pm
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