photo credit: Bill Mauzy
Every February the Piedmont Landscape Association hosts an annual seminar. This event strives to bring gardening enthusiasts and landscape professionals together in an educational setting.
NEW: 7.5 CEU's have been approved for Landscape Architects through the LACES program.
LocationThe Paramount Theater
Charlottesville, Virginia RegistrationDue to the high volume of participants and the limited volunteer capacity of our organization, everyone will be directed to register through the Paramount Theater.
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Agenda-For Speaker Bios and Topic Descriptions see below.
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Speakers
Dani Baker |
David Culp |
Hoichi Kurisu |
Michiko Kurisu |
Larry Weaner |
photo credits: (Larry Weaner) Kim Sokoloff
Dani Baker
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When market gardener Dani Baker, owner of Cross Island Farms, attended a permaculture workshop, she was inspired by its message of working with nature to create a thriving edible garden ecosystem. She immediately launched a new experiment she dubbed the “Enchanted Edible Forest.” In her book The Home-Scale Forest Garden, Baker shares what she learned as she became a forest gardener, providing a practical, in-depth guide to creating a beautiful, bountiful edible landscape at any scale―from developing an edible hedge to screen your house from your neighbor’s to planting an acre or more.
For more information, visit: The Enchanted Edible Forest |
Lecture:
What is a Forest Garden and How Can You Create One? Baker outlines food-bearing and multi-purpose plant species while suggesting beneficial plant groupings to accommodate different needs in the landscape. But before you know which plants and groupings might work best for you, you’ve got to study your landscape. Would you like to design a landscape that provides an abundance of food while reducing your labor going forward? This illustrated talk will define a forest garden, discuss the ecological concepts incorporated, and describe some attractive native plants you may want to include in your own edible landscape. |
David Culp
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David Culp is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cavano’s Perennials. He is also the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. David has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for more than 25 years. Articles on David have appeared in Gardens Illustrated, Horticulture Magazine, and numerous other publications. He is the Principle of David L. Culp Designs and Owner of the galanthus nursery Brandywine Snowdrops.
David is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society. David is Vice President for Sunny Border Nurseries in Connecticut. He is author of the book The Layered Garden published by Timber Press. David is a herbaceous perennials instructor at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. David has developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores, and was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. His garden has been featured several times in Martha Stewart Living and on HGTV. Brandywine Cottage is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens. He is a recipient of many awards including the 2014 Garden Media Award from the Perennial Plant Association and the Distinguished Garden Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. He has also been awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Award of Merit, as well as others. He serves on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Societies Gold Medal Plant Selection Committee. David will speak to the Piedmont Landscape Association & guests on “A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty and Blooms”; also the title of his newest book, published by Timber Press. |
Lecture:
A Bountiful Year: Six Seasons of Beauty from Brandywine Cottage Based on his most recent book of the same name, this talk digs deeper into David Culp’s celebrated garden Brandywine Cottage, featuring a focus for each month, including recipes, a garden to-do list, flower arrangements and practical information. Favorite mail order sources, gardening for biodiversity and wildlife habitat, the creation of meadow at Brandywine Cottage, recommended plants for dry places and even favorite weeds will also be discussed. This lecture and book are about lifestyle, and blurring the lines of indoor and outdoor living. |
Hoichi and Michiko Kurisu
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President and Founder of Kurisu, LLC, Hoichi Kurisu has been designing and building gardens for 50 years. Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Hoichi spent his childhood among rice fields and the wild landscapes of surrounding mountains. As a small child he witnessed the atomic bomb. In the aftermath of this event, the resilience of the Japanese people and nature’s role in providing hope for the future left a deep impression on Hoichi that would influence his life and work for years to come.
Hoichi joined his father’s small landscape maintenance business in the San Fernando Valley when he arrived in the United States for the first time in the mid 1960s. There Hoichi saw firsthand both the affluence and excess of post-war American life and the impacts of an increasingly industrial society. But despite the beautiful houses and big cars, Hoichi sensed profound imbalances between material wealth and spiritual well-being. At this time, Hoichi became convinced of the power of nature to meet some of humanity’s most fundamental needs. He returned to Tokyo, Japan, to study landscape design and construction under distinguished designer Kenzo Ogata. From 1968 to 1972, Hoichi served as Landscape Director for the Japanese Garden Society in Portland, Oregon, and supervised the construction of the Portland Japanese Gardens, considered some of the finest Japanese gardens outside of Japan. For more information, visit: www.kurisu.com |
Lecture:
An Evolution of Purpose: Japanese Gardens as Healing Spaces Since ancient times, Japanese gardens have been evolving within the context of culture, politics, religion, and economics. Today, the art of Japanese gardens is more relevant than ever. Kurisu LLC will share insights from 50 years of experience creating Japanese-style healing gardens that address some of society’s most urgent needs. |
Larry Weaner
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Larry Weaner, FAPLD, founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates in 1982 and established NDAL in 1990. He is nationally recognized for combining expertise in horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration. His book Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Timber Press 2016) received an American Horticultural Society (AHS) Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers Award of Distinction.
For more information, visit: www.ndal.com |
Lecture:
Managing Native Landscapes: Planted and Naturally Occurring Learn about ecological process-based landscape management procedures for natural areas (woods, meadows, shrub thicket), naturalistic gardens, and lawn alternative groundcovers. The program will also include guidance for establishing landscape goals, specifying short-term procedures to achieve them, as well as long-term management practices to be initiated once those goals have been reached. |