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LANDSCAPE DESIGN LECTURES - Fall 2012
 
Presented by
 
 Monday, October 8 – at 7pm – 8:30pm - $8
Wicker Park Field House – 1425 N. Damen
 
Christy Webber
Sustainable Landscapes?
Maintaining Your Landscape in
High Heat and Drought - How Much Water is Needed?
 
RSVP REQUIRED – Pay at Door – wpgarden@aol.com
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Monday, November 5 at 7pm – 8:30pm - $8
Wicker Park Field House – 1425 N. Damen
 
Scott Mehaffey
Vertical Garden Design
Sage Vertical Garden Systems
RSVP REQUIRED – Pay at Door – wpgarden@aol.com
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Monday, December 3 at 7-8:30pm -$8
Wicker Park Field House – 1425 N. Damen
 
Brian Culliton
Landscapes Designed Especially for Schools
Designed by Culliton - Quinn
RSVP REQUIRED – Pay at Door – wpgarden@aol.com
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WINTER LANDSCAPE DESIGN LECTURE SERIES – SPEAKERS - TBA

Dates: Mondays – January 14, February 4, March 11, 2013

 


 

 

FOUNTAIN DECORATING SOCIAL - 2012

Come and Help Decorate the Fountain for the Holidays

 

Saturday, November 17 – 10am – 4pm

Wicker Park – 1425 N. Damen

 

 


 

 

Home Landscape Design Workshop - 2013

Saturdays – 7 Weeks - 10am - 1pm

January 12 – February 23

 

Wicker Park Field House – 1425 N. Damen, Chicago

 

YOU Will Create a New Landscape for Your Home

Then Go Home with the Drawings That You Designed

 

Instruction Team:

7 Professional Designer -  10 Experienced Gardeners

 

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED - $100 – Limit 45

RSVP to wpgarden@aol.com  or (773) 278-9075

 

 

First you will create a site plan including your home, lot size, buildings around your yard, and all trees, shrubs, sidewalks, and water features. Then, looking at this site plan, you will determine what works with the architecture of your home and those around it. Next, you will study your property’s soil types, available

light levels at your site, plant palettes appropriate for your site and your aesthetics.  In this process you will survey plant combinations that work well together, considering shrubs, trees,

perennials, and the hardscape that you could incorporate into your final designs.

 

You set the budget, your goals, and determine how you plan to use the final landscape – then you design based on your acquired knowledge and input from the 7 guest speakers and our 10 experienced gardeners who will assist you in

creating your designs.

 

You will be asked to make many designs that could work

for you as you explore each week’s design concepts and goals, gaining freedom to change the plan and perhaps find a new approach that really works for you. Some enter the class with very specific goals – others create as they go.  You will create many design options for your home landscape, and then be able to decide which ones work for you.

 

CLASS STRUCTURE – 7 Week Schedule of Speakers

 

60 minutes of Lecture with Questions presented by a

professional designer

60 minutes of an exercise to learn to design with the ideas the speaker presented

60 minutes of work on your home design with input from the

teachers

Homework – goals are given each week

 

 


 

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Plant Propagation from Seeds and Cuttings

 

Saturday, March 2 - 2 sessions: 10-12 or 1:30-3:30

Richard Tilley and Doug Wood Instructors

Held in Wicker Park Home – Address Given to Registered Students

Registration Required - $15 – Sessions limited at 15 students.  RSVP to  wpgarden@aol.com.   Pay at Door.

 

 

 

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Tool Sharpening Workshop

Saturday, March 30 - 2 sessions: 10-12 or 1:30-3:30

Bring Your Tools and Go Home with Sharpened Ones

Instructors: Richard Tilley,  Jim Angrabright, Denise Browning, Susan Fontana

Registration Required - $15 – Sessions limited at 15 students.  RSVP to  wpgarden@aol.com.   Pay at Door.

 

 

 

 

SPECIAL EVENTS


 

 

PLANT SALE AND WORKSHOPS - Wicker Park Garden Fundraiser 2013

Saturday & Sunday  - May 4 & 5 at 10am - 4pm

Wicker Park 1425 N. Damen

Westside of Field House or Inside Gym if Raining

 

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Call for Volunteers!
We need volunteers to assist with garden tending and watering.

Please contact us at wpgarden@aol.com for more information.


 

 

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we thank the sponsors of our efforts - our programs lectures series and special events



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.

 

 

 

 


Brian Shea www.voltairesgardener.com
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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