Exciting Rooftop Gardens
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Dawn Szelc LDG Secretary, Clear Blue Landscapes ​The Landscape Designers Group met at the McLean Community Center to hear two designers talk about their recent projects with rooftop gardens.  ​Lan Hogue from Michael Vergason Landscape Architects spoke about the City Ridge project https://www.vergason.net/city-ridge , a 10-acre mixed use development on the former Fannie Mae campus on Wisconsin Ave in Washington, D.C. The new owner, a Japanese firm Sekisui House, removed some of the newer buildings on the property but retained the oldest building as a historic site. The area features re ..read more
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WILD BEES HAVE NEEDS
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Dawn Szelc and Clara Aleman, LDG Co-Secretaries The Landscape Designer’s Group met February 26, 2020, at the McLean Library. Our lecturer Sam Droege of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (sdroege@usgs.gov) provided a fascinating discussion on native bees. These amazing close-up pictures of native bees are available at the Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pwrc/science/native-bee-inventory-and-monitoring-lab?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects. They are public domain on Flicker and Instagram, Sam’s FB site is a good place to ask ..read more
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Five Seasons the gardens of piet oudolf
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1y ago
​LDG and APLD joined forces in January to network and screen the documentary movie about Piet Oudolf.  We had a wonderful turn out with over 60 members and guests enjoying the time together!   We started our time with both organizations offering help with online profile settings for the two organizations websites.  Molly Scott, President of the DCMDVA chapter, https://dcmdva-apld.org/ and Julie Hawley, President of LDG, both encourage our members to update their member profiles and include photos of yourself and your projects.  This online tool is very helpful to ..read more
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Lighting Tour & Annual Meeting
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1y ago
Dawn Szelc LDG Co-Secretary, Clear Blue Landscapes The November meeting of LDG bought us to Arlington on the night of a full moon for a lighting tour. It was quite magical as your can see from the picture above! Olson Weaver Lighting Design & Install hosted the discussion of a recent project with homeowner Betsy. Betsy had completed a very large landscape design project at her Arlington home. The landscape was the work of Brendan Doyle, President of PLANTERRA Landscape Design, and Shorb Landscaping. Betsy wanted a native garden that was not messy. She also developed a love for birding and ..read more
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Arlington Woods tour OCt 2019
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1y ago
Dawn Szelc LDG Secretary, Clear Blue Landscapes ​On this brilliant fall morning over 60 people (from the Landscape Designers Group, Master Gardeners, Trees Stewards, National Park Service and other organizations)  had an inspirational and informative visit to Arlington Woods, a remnant stand of Mid-Atlantic Mesic, Mixed-Hardwood Forest adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery.  ​The tour was led by Rod Simmons, Natural Resource Manager/Plant Ecologist who highlighted unique features of this “old age forest” that once covered the uplands and hillside of property owned by George W ..read more
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Good Design is more important than ever
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1y ago
by Clara Aleman, RLA, ASLA ​ ​That’s how Karen started her talk about her latest book on September 23rd, 2019 at an LDG event.  I'm talking about Karen Chapman, owner of Le jardinet, co-author of Fine Foliage, the acclaimed, Gardening with Foliage First, and several articles featured in various publications.   And her latest book - Deer-Resistant Design, the topic of this article. Why is her new book titled Deer-Resistant Design?    Well, as she so simply stated, and bears repeating, because “good design is more important than ever.”   Karen fou ..read more
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GLENSTONE LANDSCAPE TOUR
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1y ago
LDG members thoroughly enjoyed a tour of Glenstone “a place that seamlessly integrates art, architecture, and landscape into a serene and contemplative environment.” https://www.glenstone.org/. Paul Tukey, Chief Sustainability Officer, was our guide through the landscape.  Here is a snapshot of our tour ..read more
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Gardens in spring
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1y ago
Clara Aleman, RLA, ASLA  Oh!  The gardens we saw!  Not ONE, not TWO, but THREE  gardens!  One... The Marshall House in Leesburg, Virginia Two... Watermark Woods Native Plants Nursery Three... Ashburn Village pollinator gardens ​On Saturday, June 1st, our LDG team came together with APLD and celebrated Spring with a morning of garden visits.  ONE… The morning started at the historic Marshall House in Leesburg, where we met for a light breakfast and a lecture from Leslie Solitario, landscape architect with River's Edge Landscap ..read more
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May 2019 Maryland Storm water Management projects
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1y ago
Dawn Szelc, LDG Secretary, Clear Blue Landscapes Derwood MD Storm water project May’s tour took us first to Derwood, MD to see a beautiful May 2018 installation to control storm water in a neighborhood common area. The area is about 3000 sq ft and connects to Crabbs Branch Stream valley. The design was done by LDG member Darlene Robbins. The Derwood Station #2 HOA had an original design which was completed earlier by another firm and she then reworked. Darlene created a meandering flow with shrubs and rocks at the curves to direct and slow the flow of water as well as promote infiltration. T ..read more
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March 2019 Pond design, Construction, and Maintenance
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1y ago
Dawn Szelc, LDG Secretary  Clear Blue Landscapes ​The March meeting of the LDG was on ponds as water features in the landscape. We had 5 speakers from different companies in the area with expertise in pond design, construction, and management. John Magee, of Magee Design (www.johnmagee.com), has expertise in vernal ponds. Besides landscape design, John has a pod cast called The Native Plant Podcast. In Broadlands, VA he did a boardwalk in a storm water area. It is planted with native plants. He discussed the most common invasive that he sees in these areas, which is miscanthus grass, so e ..read more
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