For those in California and surroundings

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From: "The Garden Conservancy" <w*@gardenconservancy.org>

Date: October 8, 2009 2:30:01 PM PDT

To: N*@PlantSoup.Com

Subject: Important Symposium on Garden Modernism and other programs

In this email: Two fantastic seminars! Landscapes for Living: Post War Years in Northern California | Berkeley, CA Finale to The Australians | Berkeley, CA Other fall programs | San Francisco and Texas The Garden Conservancy is proud to support this Important Symposium on Garden Modernism! October 23 – 25, 2009 Landscapes for Living: Post War Years in Northern California Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley A symposium of The Cultural Landscape Foundation celebrating the publication of Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project This is an exceptional gathering of Northern California's best minds in the fields of landscape architecture, planning, and landscape history. Additionally, a reception on Friday, October 23 at the Berkeley Archives will kick off the symposium.  Saturday Lectures include: Overview The Modern California Garden at Mid-Century Reflections on Sasaki: The Early Years Remembering Royston and Reflecting on the Legacy Working with Garrett Eckbo Working with Lawrence Halprin Reflecting on the Post War Legacy in Northern California Presenters include: Cheryl Barton | Charles A. Birnbaum | Elizabeth Byers | Marta Fry | Asa Hanamoto | Walter Hood | Linda Jewell | Ken Kay | Steven Koch | Owen Lang | JC Miller | Tito Patri | Andrew Sullivan | Marc Treib Sunday Study Tour: This self-drive tour will visit public spaces and private gardens designed by several of the “modernists” profiled by Saturday’s speakers. The tour will include work by Robert Royston and Lawrence Halprin. Accompanying the group will be landscape architects, historians, authors and others who will share their impressions on these landscapes. We hope you can join us! Learn more Register online Photo: Levi Strauss Plaza, designed by Lawrence Halprin. Keep reading for more programs ... November 6 – 7, 2009 Finale to The Australians Refresh Your Australian Repertoire University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley Presented by The Garden Conservancy and The Ruth Bancroft Garden. Cosponsored by Pacific Horticulture magazine and the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Full-day Seminar on Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Conference Center at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley Half-day Study Tour on Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Oakland (three private gardens) | Flora Grubb Gardens | San Francisco Botanical Gardens  In more recent years gardeners and designers have often overlooked the marvelous array of Australian plants appropriate for our climate and soil conditions.  For this seminar, five excellent speakers lobby for mixing Australian native plants with California natives and plants from other mediterranean climates. The Australians speakers include: Randy Baldwin, horticulturist, San Marcos Growers, Santa Barbara Hank Jenkins, garden designer/horticulturist, Berkeley Dr. Glenn Keator, botanist/author, Berkeley Dr. Matt Ritter, biologist/professor, California Polytechnic State University, Leaning Pine Arboretum, San Luis Obispo Bernard Trainor, landscape designer/an Aussie himself! Pacific Grove View and print the flyer for this event. Learn more Register online Please visit the Garden Conservancy website for more programs in the Bay Area and beyond! AUSTIN, TX Limestone & Water Plants, Design and Inspiration for the Texas Gardens Saturday, October 31 | 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX Four garden design experts share their experience with innovative design in a hot climate. If you aren’t lucky enough to live in Austin but live and garden elsewhere in a dryer climate, this seminar applies to you, too! SAN FRANCISCO Book Launch for The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn Thursday, November 12 | 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Flora Grubb Gardens, San Francisco By John Greenlee, photographs by Saxon Holt (Timber Press, Nov 2009) Please join us to celebrate the release of this much anticipated book! John Greenlee and Saxon Holt will share the lure of the meadow garden as a replacement for the time-consuming, chemical-sucking traditional lawn. SAVE THE DATE! SAN FRANCISCO The Global Migrations of Ornamental Plants: How the World Got into Your Garden November 17 | 6:00 p.m. Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco Book and talk by Judith M. Taylor (Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2009).  No matter where you live and garden in North America, it is likely that most plants you select are descended from South American, Asian, Australian, or European plants imported here many years ago. Author Judith Taylor will trace the journey of the familiar plants we grow in our gardens from their far-flung roots to our backyards.  Members of the Mechanics' Institute and the Garden Conservancy and Pacific Horticulture magazine subscribers are free! This evening program is jointly sponsored by the Mechanics' Institute, the Garden Conservancy, and Pacific Horticulture magazine. To learn more about the Garden Conservancy, please visit our website www.gardenconservancy.org  National Headquarters: PO Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516/ P: 845.265.2029/ F: 845.265.9620/ info@gardenconservancy.org West Coast Office: 38 Keyes Avenue, Suite 106, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA 94129/ P: 415/441-4300/  wcprog@gardenconservancy.org

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