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Apr 13

NDAL Virtual Class: Wild Solutions on an Urban Pre-K-12 School Campus

Presented by New Directions in The American Landscape. Host Kay McConnell.

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Mar 31

NDAL Virtual Class: Novel Plant Communities – A Real World Approach to Managing Spontaneous Vegetation

Presented by New Directions in The American Landscape. Hosted by Jack Ahern & Larry Weaner.

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Mar 29

NDAL Virtual Class: Simple by Design – Landscapes for Deep Social Impact

Presented by New Directions in The American Landscape. Hosted by Keith Green and Julianne Schrader Ortega.

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Mar 23

NDAL Virtual Class: The Bower – Native Plant Landscape and Sculpture Park

Presented by New Directions in The American Landscape. Hosts Bill Allis, Jane Allis and Ethan Dropkin.

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Mar 16

Virtual Class Held by New Directions in The American Landscape: Native Edible and Medicinal Plants in the “Wild-Designed” Landscape

Native edible and medicinal plants can be integrated into landscape gardens and ecological restorations to create habitats that support both people and their local ecosystems. We’ll consider a habitat-based approach to stewarding edible and medicinal plants that translates to home landscapes, parks, and farms. Field botanist, native plant grower, and restoration practitioner Jared Rosenbaum asks whether we can honor native ecosystems and cultural lifeways as we restore habitats that support people, other animals, and native plants alike. Held by New Directions in The American Landscape.

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Mar 14

Virtual Class Held by New Directions in The American Landscape: Gardens as Pollinator Habitat – Limitations, Potential, and Context

Together, flowering plants and flower-visiting insects make up a third of the Earth’s species. In this talk, we will trace the relationship between flowers and insects from the primordial forests of the Cretaceous to your backyard garden. Along the way, we will discuss the limitations and potential of gardens as pollinator habitat, and we will explore how gardening might be reimagined as a cooperative, landscape-scale practice that could change the ecological meaning of cities and suburbs. Held by New Directions in The American Landscape.

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Apr 21

NDAL Virtual Class: At Home in a Wild Landscape

Presented by New Directions in The American Landscape. Hosted by Larry Weaner.

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Mar 21

Virtual Class by New Directions in The American Landscape: The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer

Join Chanticleer’s Executive Director and Head Gardener Bill Thomas for a visual tour and behind-the-scenes look at what the Washington Post calls “one of the most interesting and edgy public gardens in America.” Chanticleer is known for its residential-scale plant combinations featuring foliage textures and colors, its wide variety of containers, and its imaginative homemade furniture. The garden aims to be environmentally responsible, visually exciting, educational, and fun. Bill will offer insights on what inspires this special place. Held by New Directions in The American Landscape.

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Mar 09

Virtual Class by New Directions in The American Landscape: Every Garden is an Intervention – Rejecting the Eco-Purity Pledge and Embracing Compromise to Foster Resilience

Every garden, no matter how small, is a human intervention in an ecological system. The more we understand that system, the more effectively we can balance ecological resilience with human functional needs and garden design principles. We will review case studies of landscape projects in suburban Boston and Cambridge, MA, alongside systems theory, to explore how to create beautiful, ecologically vibrant gardens on small-scale residential properties. Held by New Directions in the American Landscape.

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Mar 07

Virtual Class by New Directions in The American Landscape: Mini Meadow Making

With as little as a few square feet of space, you can grow a beautiful, low-maintenance, naturalistic meadow that supports a diversity of plants, pollinators, and a plethora of other living things – not to mention its visual appeal in your home garden. Find inspiration in natural spaces so you can successfully site, design, plant, and care for your own mini meadow. From site preparation and plant selection, to designing and planting, you’ll learn how to go from a bare canvas to a bright, flower-filled mini meadow, even with minimal gardening experience – including advice on how to care for your wildflower planting for many colorful seasons to come. Held by New Directions in the American Landscape.

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