Climate Change, Design Narrative, Ecological Horticulture, Garden Management, Garden Update, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Landscape Architecture, Lurie Garden's Story, Piet Oudolf
The initial vision of a constructed space can be maintained as it evolves if the original creators remain involved to help steer changes. Landscapes in public spaces evolve through multiple influences. A site’s mission, funding, or management can shift this evolution. Community needs may dictate a site’s alteration as well as ever-growing environmental changes and updates […]
Garden Design, Garden Design Elements, Guest Blog Post, How-To Lurie Garden, Landscape Architecture
Can we as designers, horticulturalists and gardeners feasibly and successfully recreate park design and modern design features in our own gardens? My visit to Lurie Garden was all about looking at ideas, features and combinations and reinterpreting them to work on a home garden scale. In 2015 the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) announced that one […]
Ecological Horticulture, Garden Design Elements, Garden Management, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Landscape Architecture, Lurie Garden's Story, Piet Oudolf
When one enters Chicago’s Lurie Garden or New York’s High Line, it is clear these are not traditionally cultivated gardens, nor are they prairies, woodlands, or meadows, where composition is left to the whims of natural forces. Rather, they are composed and curated landscapes that evoke a site’s ecological past, celebrate the best attributes of […]