The Designer’s Eye: Assessing and Organizing Your Outdoor Spaces with C. Colston Burrell
Venue: Hahn Garden Pavilion, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost:
General Public: $40.00 Friends of the Garden: $30.00

Description:
Join Cole Colston Burrell, acclaimed international lecturer, garden designer, award winning author, naturalist and photographer, for the The Designer’s Eye: Assessing and Organizing Your Outdoor Spaces Workshop.

Our most in-depth design workshop ever! A well-designed garden is more than a collection of plants; it is a logical sequence of spaces, enhanced by plantings, structures and ornaments that define them. These bones determine how the garden looks through the seasons. Cole Burrell takes you through the process of assessing and organizing the spatial layout of your outdoor spaces as well as providing ideas for designing and furnishing the floors, walls and ceiling of the garden. We explore the placement and interrelationship of the gardens spaces by envisioning the entire property as our canvas, and create linkages that meld all the elements into a seamless whole.

Cole’s latest book, Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide, coauthored with Judith Knott Tyler, received the 2007 American Horticultural Society Book Award. He is author of several popular titles, including Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials - 10th Anniversary Edition with Ellen Phillips, Perennial Combinations, Revised 2008, (an Amazon.com best selling garden title), Perennials for Today’s Gardens and A Gardener’s Encyclopedia of Wildflowers, which won the 1997 AHS Book Award.

Cole writes regularly for Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, American Gardener and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He is a lecturer in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he teaches about plants and their ecological connections to natural systems and cultural landscapes. Cole’s 10-acre Blue Ridge garden, Bird Hill, was featured in The New York Times and frequently appears in national and regional publications. The garden is a popular destination for national tours.

Pre-registration is required for workshops and highly recommended for seminars. Call Stephanie at 540-231-5970 to register by phone or email vtgarden@vt.edu.

For more information, visit: http://www.hort.vt.edu/hhg/events or call 540-231-5970.

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