Certificate of Accomplishment in Landscape Design

**M* P* D* <m*@dargan.com>**

Dear Garden Writers,

I appreciate your sharing the news of our innaugural Clemson Certificate of
Accomplishment in Landscape Design : Distance Learning program. Distance
registration for the course is on-going through out the year.
Deadline is October 15, 2004 for the "Live" Fall Design Studio weekend
session at Clemson University.

I attach the forms and course description.

THE COURSE
The Certificate consists of seven courses of 7 lectures each, plus two
weekend design studios held at Clemson University (Nov 13/14, 2004 and Jan
8/9, 2005). The course lasts approximately 3 months. It is delivered by DVD
which may be watched from your computer or TV at home! Homework varies
according to the intensity of interest of the participant and is mailed or
e-mailed to the instructor.

The course presents the opportunity to design your own grounds or those of
others, gain a vocabulary of designed spaces, new plant materials sizes and
uses,  as well as landscape history, planting design, construction of
hardscapes and built structures. You also learn how to draw and read
plans...painlessly!

Www.ccald.org is the website and contains over 4600 slides of the lectures.
You can contact Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA at mpdargan@dargan.com or
864-646-2432. The live Design Studio class is filling fast, so please
contact: Continuing Education , Clemson University, 343-B Sirrine Hall,
Clemson, SC 29632 Fax to : 864-656-3997  Kay James, Registrar 864-656-2200.

INSTRUCTOR VITAE
The instructor, Mary Palmer Dargan, RLA, ASLA is a licensed landscape
architect, well-know for her work in residential landscape design. She and
her husband, Hugh Dargan, RLA, ASLA own Dargan Landscape Architects
(established 1973), received professional awards from The American Society
of Landscape Architects and The Garden Club of America. Their designs are
published in hundreds of magazines including House and Garden, Southern
Accents and Veranda plus numerous books such as Pereyi's Gardens for the
21st Century and Jim Cothran's Gardens of Historic Charleston.

Mary Palmer has taught adults to design since 1984 and founded this course
while a visiting professor at Clemson University.  Her Masters Degree in
Landscape Architecture is from Louisiana State University and the Bachelors
in Botany from the University of Tennessee. A native of Nashville,TN, at a
tender age MP was Botanist and Education Director at Cheekwood Botanical
Gardens.  As a member of Cherokee Garden Club,(a GCA affiliate) in Atlanta,
GA, she engages in community activities and is current national Chair of
Historic Preservation for the American Society of Landscape Architects.

MP writes about landscape design for magazines, most recently, the
July/August 2004 issue of Southern Accents :
http://www.southernaccents.com/accents/gardens/design/article/0,14743,684907
,00.html

Her very active design firms are in Pendleton,SC, Cashiers, NC and Atlanta,
GA. Dargan Landscape Architect's archives, which number in the hundreds, are
housed in The South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston and The
Cherokee Garden Library at The Atlanta History Center.

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Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA, CLARB
Dargan Landscape Architects, CFO
Specialists in the Fine Art of Landscape Architecture since 1973
www.dargan.com,   404-354-1715 cell,  office 864-646-2432