Edition 7 of Friends of Garden Design School

Friends of

Garden Design School

Welcome to our latest edition of Friends of Garden Design School; a regular newsletter keeping you up to date with all our exciting news and events.

Multiple Awards at Boston Flower

& Garden Show

We are delighted to announce that Thomas E Wheaton and Christine Kendall Quinby of Garden Design School, USA Class of 2012 have received an impressive four awards at this year's Boston Flower and Garden Show.

Boston Flower Show 13

This is the third year in a row that Garden Design School graduates have participated in and won awards at the Boston Show. This year the show featured 30 garden display entries from throughout New England.

Thomas and Christine collaborated to produce their winning entry, titled "A Welcoming Urban Oasis". Their garden illustrated how a small plot in a dense urban setting can be transformed into a lush green, wooded sanctuary. It featured a sunken circular porcelain tiled patio, weathered steel retaining walls and a built-in rainwater recovery system to provide irrigation. While incorporating sustainable materials and ideas in their garden wherever possible, Thomas and Christine demonstrated that "green" practices and good design can go hand-in-hand.

Before and After

A team of eight volunteers spent two and a half days installing the exhibit. Their efforts paid off for Thomas and Christine in the form of four awards:

New England Chapter (APLDne) Association of Professional Landscape Designers Award

Awarded for the "Most beautiful home landscape designed with clarity and spatial awareness, attention to scale, unified and harmonious use of regional hardscape and plant materials with good transition between elements, low maintenance, and environmentally responsible".

The Landscape Design Council of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. Award II

Awarded for "Effective use of garden ornaments, water features, specimen trees or topiary in creating good design".

The Boston Flower & Garden Show Award for Trained Plants

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Ribbon for Best Student Group

An interactive, virtual 360 view from inside the show garden is available here

A video about the garden is viewable on YouTube

"A Welcoming Urban Oasis"

For further information, please visit Thomas Wheaton's website here

'Creating Beautiful, Naturalistic Water Gardens'

by Anthony Archer-Wills

Robin and a number of present students and graduates really enjoyed Anthony's talk on water gardening at the University of Bath Gardening Club on March 13th.

Anthony is an internationally renowned water design specialist and his work is truly inspirational. Anthony is based in New York but continues to work worldwide. He has been a good friend of Garden Design School and has lectured for us in Massachusetts for the last three years.

For more information on Anthony Archer-Wills, please click here to visit his website

*** STOP PRESS ***

We still have a few places left for Gordon Croy's marketing and promotion day in June.

Painshill Park, Surrey - Tuesday 11 June 2013

Bristol Botanic Garden - Thursday 13 June 2013

If you are trying to grow your business you really shouldn't miss this opportunity to learn from a master. Gordon has worked for many international businesses and brings his expertise to the intimate and personal world of Garden Design. This opportunity will not be repeated and you shouldn't miss this extraordinary day.

The days run from 9.30 to 4.30 and cost £100 incl VAT.

To reserve a place on one of the above dates please contact Justine Davis by emai at enquiries@gardendesignschool.co.uk as soon as possible.

Gordon Croy - Before becoming a very busy and successful garden designer with Accent Garden Designs, Gordon worked across a wide range of service industries as a company director and entrepreneur. He helped launch many diverse commercial operations with leading names such as Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay; the Ministry of Defence and what is now Virgin Media. He has helped a variety of organisations to understand their clients better and to establish the processes to build successful businesses. He has applied macro solutions to micro situations to achieve excellent results. You can visit Accent Garden Designs' website here

About Garden Design School

Garden Design School is the country's leading independent provider of garden design vocational training courses. Our flagship, one-year garden design diploma is widely acknowledged as having set the industry standard in today's garden design diploma courses. We concentrate on all the essential skills that will allow you to confidently embark on a professional career in garden design, or to extend your existing knowledge and experience. Visit our website here to find out more.

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Founded by Robin Templar Williams FSGD, APLD (USA), M-BALI and Moira Farnham MSGD, M-BALI