Two Garden Design Studio's
hands-On Garden Design Experiences
Saturday, September 20
9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
$50 Registration Fee
Supplies provided.
Registration required; limited to 20 participants per session
Join Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach, co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery, in a hands-on design workshop using the display gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery. Participants will explore design theory applied on site to determine practical garden design solutions: creating focal points, adding a sense of design cohesiveness, and making sense of repetition and contrast. Abstract theory will be translated into concrete planting patterns that shape space and give a long season of beauty in the landscape. We will mock up garden planting layouts and discover and discuss the ornamental and cultural attributes of planting choices. We will discuss solutions for a diversity of cultural conditions, such as sun and shade. The goal of this design workshop is to help individuals translate their experiences to finding solutions for their own gardens.
Warren Leach is a passionate plant collector and landscape horticulturist with a depth of knowledge of all garden plants - both perennial and woody plants and tropical and temperate. He is also a distinguished and award-winning garden designer. Warren enjoys sharing his horticultural and garden design knowledge with others through garden lectures, mentoring and through the gardens that he designs.
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For more than thirty years, Warren has been creating beautiful landscapes throughout New England as well as making captivating and educational display gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery. He is co-owner of this specialty nursery that is a prominent grower of daylilies, iris and distinctive perennials and woody plants.
Warren is also an award winning landscape designer, twice receiving the National Landscape Association Regional Certificate of Merit for Residential Landscape Design. Images of his garden design at Brigham Hill Farm in North Grafton, Massachusetts are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2009, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association presented him the 1st Place Award for Residential Design and Installation for his ornamental vegetable garden at Brigham Hill Farm in N. Grafton. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society honored Warren in 2010 with a Gold Medal for his horticultural expertise, landscape design as well as years of forcing plants and creating exceptional displays in the New England Spring Flower Show
Call the nursery at 508-252- 4002 to register or send an e-mail to Tranquil lake Nursery.
