Creating the Winter Garden & Beyond: Using the Art of Lay-out Design

This slide lecture presents design concepts & techniques to create your own beautiful garden. Learn how to create the bones of the 4-season landscape while creating the Winter Garden. Diagrams of the winter plantings, and the nuts & bolts of drifts and masses show you how.  Learn how to create winter gardens that delight and inspire. Images from Tower Hill’s Winter Garden, Mass Hort’s Bressingham Garden, Decordova Museum & the author’s designs to inspire.

Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating over 30 years in professional practice. Maria specializes in beautiful earth-friendly landscapes and colorful flower gardens using native plants and pollinators designed for you and your family. Trained as a fine artist, color theorist, and organic gardener Maria brings years of critical design thinking to her landscape solutions. Her design has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine, Landscape Ideas You Can Use, Front Yard IdeaBook, and others. A former contributing editor to LandShapes Magazine, you can read her blog on her website www.mariavonbrincken.com. Visit her website to view her portfolio and to book her Home Gardener Coaching Services and Design Planning

In-person meetings are held the at the Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. Parking is available for a small fee, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm. The SGC has been informed that the entry doors to the TAB will be locked at 8pm, effective immediately, including on our meeting days. Please arrange your arrival times accordingly.