On May 9, 2013, NELDHA member Julie Esteves of Juliagarden presented a lecture on "Color Schemes in the Garden" at a meeting of the Cape Cod Landscape Association. Julie has owned Juliagarden in Osterville, Massachusetts  with her husband Arthur  or the past twelve years.  Julia shared her knowledge with us on how to use planting  design principles and different types of plants  for that all important summer color.

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Rolling Ridge, a Country Place Era Estate in North Andover Massachusetts, was landscape architect Fletcher Steele's first independent commission after he left the employ of Warren Manning. His impact on the estate was unusual for a landscape architect since he was employed from the beginning in 1915: he determined the placement of the buildings and designed the landscape as a whole. The landscape construction began in 1915 before the buildings; the manor was begun in 1920 and the last element, the courtyard garden was built c. 1922.

Hello NELDHA friends,

I am a 2007 graduate of the Landscape Institute. I graduated just as the recession was beginning to reveal itself, and ‘newbies’ in the
landscape design field found few mentors or practitioners in the field willing to take on a novice landscape designer. I found work designing community gardens for non-profit groups, small residential gardens for friends and neighbors, a hillside pathway for a Montessori school, a spiritual garden for a synagogue community.

A chance encounter in 2009 changed the direction of my work. I was sitting in our synagogue at Jewish New Year and during the Rabbi’s sermon I became transfixed by two hand-painted silk banners flanking him. The colors, the textures, the way the light caught the silk revealing subtle undertones of the elaborate designs caught my imagination. I began to take silk painting classes. Three years later

NELDHA member Karen Falb of Cambridge, was an exhibitor at the recent Boston Flower Show in the Miniature Gardens category. These artful displays are part of the amateur competition called "Blooms!" Her exhibit, titled “Picnic with Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends” Entries are awarded gold, silver and bronze tags; "Pooh" got a silver.

The Parker River Wildlife Refuge, Greenscapes and Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA) are presenting a Kick-off Workshop Slow the Flow on March 31, from 9-3, at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, 6 Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport, MA. The  workshop will introduce the public to the need for greenscapes in the Great Marsh, and how their actions will help preserve the natural and cultural resources. In the afternoon session - Real Solutions in Your Backyard, King will discuss landscaping with natives, Rain Gardens, and border plants. Principal of Denise King Landscape Designs, King earned a graduate design certificate from the Radcliffe Seminars Landscape Program, Radcliffe College in 1997. Volunteering for IRWA since 2007, she designed their Native Plant Demonstration Garden, Rain Garden and Wildlife Garden, and continues to work with volunteers to maintain the gardens.

The Maynard Community Gardeners are sponsoring a lecture entitled Planting Ecological Gardens on Thursday, November 17, from 7 – 9, at the Maynard Public Library, 77 Nason Street in Maynard. The speaker, Maria von Brincken, earned a graduate design certificate from the Radcliffe Seminars Landscape Program, Radcliffe College in 1994 as well as national certification from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) in 2003 — one of only seven APLD-certified professional landscape designers in Massachusetts. Her work has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine and Taunton Press’ Front Yard Idea Book. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hello Friends,

I am pleased to be exhibiting many of the oil and watercolor landscape paintings I've done in last five years at Habitat, the Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary, in Belmont, from Sept. 8-30. There will be a reception on Sept 20th, a Tuesday night, from 6 until 8 p.m. I hope you can come.

Its especially nice to be showing these works at Habitat, which is a garden and nature preserve. You can see a well maintained perennial and annual flower garden there at the house, and then take a walk through the more wild parts of the preserve down to a pond. You might want to do this as well as see my exhibition.

Historian Laurie Pazzano will be giving a brown bag lecture discussing her Landscape Institute Project Peace field: 1788-1818, The New England Farm of John and Abigail Adams on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at noon at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Free and open to the public. She will also be discussing the project on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 7:00 pm for the Medford Garden Club located at the Medford Public Library.

Landscape Designer and sculptor Karen Stanley has an ongoing exhibit until the end of September at the Munson Gallery 880Main Street in Chatham, Massachusetts.

Landscape Preservationist Maureen O'Brien will be giving a lecture and tour of Fletcher Steele's landscape at Rolling Ridge, North Andover, Massachusetts to the Landscape Design Council of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts on October 3, 2011.

NELDHA Member Karin Stanley graciously donated a beautiful piece of Celtic inspired scultpture to NELDHA's silent auction at the Annual Dinner on May 13, 2011, at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Karin Stanley, born in Ireland started out as a knitwear designer and fiber artist Karin shifted to stone, steel, and mixed media. Today she works in a three dimensional world in sculpture and landscape design. Karin enrolled in the Radcliffe Seminars landscape  program to pursue her two great interests—landscape history and design, focusing on the Irish and Scottish garden. 

Karin’s inspiration are the Ancient Megalithic and Celtic places she grew up in Ireland. Karin's creations  resonate with that ‘old place within’ whether spiraled spheres or monolithic stelae (an upright stone or slab). Karin’s work can be seen at  Elm Bank - ‘the Celtic Shadow Sundial,’ Wellesley College's Multifaith Chapel - ‘The Celtic Goddess of the Seasons’, and the entry garden and sculpture ‘Stela Nuture’ at the Carroll School to name a few.  She received the Eddie Barron commission given to an Irish Artist in North America and created the sculpture ‘An Cuimhin Leat’.

Karin’s art continues to evolve. She is exploring new dimensions for outdoor space withnew outdoor embellishments.  ‘The Art Sheer’, custom large gylcee prints on weatherproof fabric, can withstand the elements and be used artistically outdoors, on decks, and as an alternative screening.

Karin’s work is available at her studio garden in South Natick, Gallery 55, in Natick, and at the Munson Gallery in Chatham, Massachusetts. More information contact Karin Stanley 508-655-6616 or visitkarinstanley.com