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The Landscape Design Council offers educational programs relating to the designed and natural environment. These programs include in-person and online lectures and meetings, workshops, tours and trips. The list below includes some past programs and upcoming programs offered to our members for their enjoyment and enrichment.
This list will be updated when new information is available. Members should monitor their email for notice and details of upcoming programs.
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2025-2026 Fiscal Year Programs:
Two day tour in the Berkshires: TBA
2024-2025 Fiscal Year Programs:
Bristol Rhode Island: Tour of Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum
Annual Meeting and Tour at MIT Endicott House
Roxbury, Massachusetts: Tour of Shirley Eustis House
These are some of LDC's Past Programs
Image: Long Hill, Beverly, Massachusetts. September 2024. Photo by Fyj Wheeler.
2024 - 2025 Fiscal Year
Tour of Longhill, Beverly, MA
Tour of Moraine Farm, Beverly, MA
Online Winter Lecture: "Myth of the Roxbury Gentleman Farmer" by Eileen Woodford
Image: Boulderwoods, Hopkington, Massachusetts, May 2024. Photo by Fyj Wheeler.
2023 - 2024 Fiscal Year
Tour of Bedrock Gardens in Lee, New Hampshire with founder Jill Nooney
Tour of Boulderwoods, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting & Tour Mary M. B. Wakefield Arboretum, Milton Massachusetts
Image: Glen Magna Farms, Danvers, Massachusetts. Photo by FYJ Wheeler.
2022-2023 Fiscal Year
Tour of Long Hill Estate, Beverly, Massachusetts
Tour of Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting and Tour at Glen Magna Farms, Danvers, Massachusetts
Image: Encore Boston Harbor, Everett, Massachusetts, November 2021. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2021-2022 Fiscal Year
Landscape Tour at Encore Boston Harbor, Everett, Massachusetts
Online Lecture: "Trends and Emerging Ideas in Landscapes and Land Care" with Kathy Connolly
Online Lecture & Meeting featuring a Presentation by LDC Honorary Consultant & Designer Laura Bibler of the French Garden that she restored at the Stevens Coolidge House & Gardens in North Andover, Massachusetts
Online lecture "Starving for Darkness" with Jane Slade
Annual Meeting and Tour at Plimoth-Patuxet Museums, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Image: Katy Gannon-Jannelle 's garden in Falmouth, Maine.
2020-2021 Fiscal Year
Online Lecture: "Native Plant Design" with Landscape Architect Amanda Sloan
Online Lecture: "The New Heirloom Garden" by Ellen Ecker Ogden
Online Lecture "Create Foundation Gardens That Say 'Welcome Home' to Native Plants" with Kathy Connolly
Online: Annual Meeting featuring a lecture by LDC member and award winning Designer and Consultant by Katy Gannon-Janelle of her Falmouth, Maine garden
Online Lecture: Presentation by author Christopher Klein based on his book The Boston Harbor Islands
Image: Les Jardins de Quartre Vents, LaMalbaie, Canada, July 2019. "The Boss." Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2019-2020 Fiscal Year
Tour of Les Jardins de Quatre -Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada
Walking Tour of Fuller Brook Park, Wellesley, Massachusetts, guided by Cricket Vlass, CLD, MCA, MCLP
Screening of The Gardener, Lexington, Massachusetts
"Making of the Gardens at Long Hill, Beverly, Massachusetts: a lecture by Lauren Meier, ASLA at Wellesley, Massachusetts
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Due to the Covid 19 Epidemic in person meetings were suspended for this fiscal year and programing was held online beginning in the fall of 2020.
Image: Bedrock Gardens, Lee, New Hampshire, 2019. The "Wiggle Waggle."
2018-2019 Fiscal Year
Tour of the Federal Reserve Bank Gardens, Boston, Massachusetts
Tour of Great Hill, Stone Estate, Marion, Massachusetts
Tour of Bedrock Gardens, Lee, New Hampshire
"Pastoral Landscapes of the Hudson River School" Lecture by Fruitlands Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting & Tour at Fruitlands Museum
Tour of The Blue Garden, Newport Rhode Island
Tour of Rough Point, Newport, Rhode Island
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Tour of Lowell National Historic Park and River Cruise, Lowell, Massachusetts
Image: Sakonnet Garden, Little Compton, Rhode Island, 2018. Temple in the Shade Garden. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2017-2018 Fiscal Year
Connecticut Summer Road Trip: Elizabeth Park Conservancy, Hollister House, Brush Hill Gardens, Hill-stead Museum & Wickham Park
Tour of Sakonnet Garden, Little Compton, Rhode Island
Western Massachusetts: "A Day at Beaver Lodge, Ashfield," Massachusetts with Marie Stella, MA, MS, Landscape Historian, Instructor and visit to Three Sisters Sanctuary, Goshen, Massachusetts
Tour of Flax Pond Cranberry Bogs, Carver, Massachusetts
Lecture "Our Pollinators, Bees, Birds & Butterflies," Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick, Massachusetts
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
House of Seven Gables and Seaside Garden, Salem, Massachusetts
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting & Tour, MIT Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts with a lecture by Deborah Pierce, author and architect
Quabbin Reservoir Tour, Belchertown, Massachusetts
Image: LDC members and guests at the Entrance to the 2017 Philadelphia Flower Show.
2016-2017 Fiscal Year
Guided Walking Tour of North Point Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Presentation of Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign) Projects by Meg Muckenhoupt, Executive Director, Waltham, Massachusetts
Tour of Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor
"Heavenly Plants for Hellstrips" by Kerry Ann Mendez, Perennially Yours, Wellesley, Massachusetts
“SPRING FLING” Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Philadelphia Flower Show Road Trip: Flower Show, Longwood Garden & Winterthur
Annual Meeting at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts with a lecture by Renata von Tscharner, Founder & President, Charles River Conservancy
Image: Fuller Gardens, North Hampton , New Hampshire. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2015-2016 Fiscal Year
Membership Meeting, Espousal Center, Waltham, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Lecture "Emerald Necklace" by Alan S. Banks, National Park Service, Waltham, Massachusetts
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Annual Meeting at "Stonehurst - Robert Treat Paine Estate" Waltham, Massachusetts
Fuller Gardens, North Hampton, New Hampshire
Spectacle Island, Boston, Massachusetts
Image: Mytoi Gardens, Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, 2015. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2014-2015 Fiscal Year
"Green Roofs – Good for you and the world!" lecture by Jessie Banhazl, CEO of Green City Growers, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Tour of Olmsted Archives at Fairsted, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting at Andover Country Club, Andover, Massachusetts
Tours of Mytoi Gardens, and Polly Hill Arboretum on Martha's Vineyard on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Tour of the Wakefield Estate, Milton, Massachusetts
Combined Garden Study Council and LDC tour in Falmouth, Massachusetts gardens with Paul Miskovsky
Image: Group photo at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
2013-2014 Fiscal Year
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Tour with Paul Miskovsky "Four Season Gardening –Entry and Bressingham Gardens at Elm Bank," Wellesley, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Landscape Tour, Boston, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting at the Holliston Historical Society with a lecture "Planting Pots with Pizzazz" by Jana Milbocker and Joan Butler followed by tours of private gardens
Maine Road Trip: Tours of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay Harbor, Maine and Hosmer Garden, York, Maine
Lecture by Tovah Martin, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Image: Crane Estate at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts, 2013. Rose Garden before restoration. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2012-2013 Fiscal Year
Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Massachusetts Medical Society Headquarters, Tour & Lecture by Dr. George Santos, Chair of the Committee on Landscape Design
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
"Design Strategies of Great Gardens," Lecture by Rich Pomerantz, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting and Guided Tour of the Crane Estate, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Image: Rolling Ridge, Andover, Massachusetts. The Cascade. Photo by Maureen O'Brien.
2011-2012 Fiscal Year
Tour and lecture with Maureen T. O'Brien of Rolling Ridge, North Andover, Massachusetts, a Fletcher Steele landscape
Lecture by Lucinda Brockway, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Annual meeting at Wayside Inn and lecture "Stone by Stone" by Robert Thorson
Tour of 2 gardens and a nursery in Hanover, Holbrook and Marshfield Massachusetts
2010-2011 Fiscal Year
Tours of Bedrock Gardens in Lee, and Hosta Amour in Windham, New Hampshire
Lecture by Anne Schulyer – "Edith Wharton: A Genius for Gardens," Wellesley, Massachusetts
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Annual Meeting Tavern at Quarry Hills, Quincy and a tour of a Fletcher Steele garden in Milton. Massachusetts
Western Massachusetts Road Trip: Goshen Stone and MacLachlan Garden in Williamsburg and Mazur Garden in Leverett
2009-2010 Fiscal Year
Program and tour at Beaver Lodge, Ashfield, Massachusetts
Lynden Miller lecture: "Parks, Plants and People," Boston, Massachusetts
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
Boston Flower & Garden Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Lucia Droby of COG Design: "Making Gardens that Sooth the Spirit," Wellesley, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting at MIT Endicott House & lecture by Elizabeth Vizza "History of the Public Garden," Dedham, Massachusetts
Tour Rose Kennedy Greenway tour with Linda Jonash, Director Planning and Design
2008-2009 Fiscal Year
Tour at Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, Massachusetts
Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Landscape Design Judging Workshop
New England Spring Flower Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Tour of Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts
Lecture at the Wellesley Library, Massachusetts
Annual Meeting MIT Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts
Tour of Hudson River Valley: Boscobel, Kykuit, Lyndhurst, Montgomery Place, Olana, Sleepy Hollow, Stonecrop Gardens and Van Cortlandt Manor
2007-2008 Fiscal Year
Tour of the Chelmsford Public Garden, designed by LDC Member, Sue Spicer and her garden club
Tour of the new Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park, Providence Rhode Island
Lecture by Allyson Hayward "Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer," Wellesley, Massachusetts
Judging Workshop at The Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show
New England Spring Flower Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Annual Meeting at MIT Endicott House
2006-2007 Fiscal Year
Tour of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Lecture by Virginia Begg: Gardens: "The Pathway between Nature and Art," Andover, Massachusetts
Judging Workshop at The Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show
New England Spring Flower Show: LDC Consultants - Landscape Design Council Award Judging
Annual Meeting Boston
Western Massachusetts Road Trip: Naumkeag, The Mount, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Chesterwood, Norman Rockwell Museum and Ashintully
Tour of the Temple Garden at Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Tour of Longfellow Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2005-2006 Fiscal Year
Visit to Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Massachusetts to learn about its revitalized Master Plan for the Arboretum
Behind the scenes look at the Minuteman High School's exhibit at the Boston Spring Flower Show
Tours of Lyn Peabody Wildflower Garden in Brewster, Massachusetts and a member's garden in Nauset, Massachusetts
Paul Kelly of Boston Natural Areas Network, Inc. gave a guided tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Rooftop Garden
2004-2005 Fiscal Year
Tours on Mount Desert Island in Maine that included: Charlotte Rhoads Park and Butterfly Garden in Southwest Harbor, Asticou Azalea Garden, Asticou Terraces, and Thuya Garden
1994-1995 Fiscal Year
Tour of Adams National Historic Site, Quincy, Massachusetts
Trough Workshop @ Long Hill, Beverly, Massachusetts
Camellia Time at Lyman Estate and Lecture: "Judging Review," Waltham, Massachusetts
New England Spring Flower Show, Bayside Expo, Boston
Annual Meeting, Lecture by Architect Dick Grinnell "Restoring the Minot Lodge Lighthouse Keepers Residence" and visit to the terrace and garden designed by Peggy Connors and maintained by the Cohasset Garden Club, Cohasset, Massachusetts
Tour of Post Office Square with BRA Consultant Shirley Muirhead, Boston, Massachusetts
Tour of Tranquil Lake Nursery and Lecture by Warren Leach on "Using Color to Design with Impact," Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Talk "Evolution of a Garden" and tour of his garden by Landscape Designer Randall Wieting, Salem, Massachusetts
Stay tuned additional information on past programs will be listed soon!
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