Timeless Landscape Designs in a Day: Virginia Beach workshop

The Mid-South Horticultural Short Courses, sponsored by The Virginia Horticultural Foundation, started today with a wiz-bang demonstration of potions and liquers. I tested samples of 8 different flavors from lemoncello to kahlua to creme-de-minthe, the real thing. Fabulous flavors with a kick; what a perk to a lecturer.

Tomorrow, I test a new teaching method of Raw, Built and Living Overlays to an over sold audience of 82 people. Whew. Will report back on how many different solutions can be produced for a mountain, courtyard or urban landscape, as students have choices of projects. The audience consists of homeowners, horticulturists, landscape designers and allies professions. All very jovial people, maybe I should server a potion or liquer at the end of the 6 hr session?

Georgia Spring Home Show Dargan Landscape Architects Stunning Exhibit

Georgia Spring Home Show is in full force today. Our first exhibit at a trade show absolutely surpassed my wildest expectations. Our forced bulbs in full bloom: hyacinths, muscari, galanthus, dwarf dutch iris. The moss rich green and moist, Spanish moss hanging realistically from the rafters, the leaf green fountain bubbling, baby Kingsville boxwoods in place and paving complete. Arbor spectacular...it is recycled from the Palladian one in our book and modified for the show. It is solid cypress. Many thanks to David Okun and his marvelous crew: Mundo, Victor and Gino for installation, Steve Miller for boxwoods, Chrissie Hendritze and her mother Connie Mathis for planting everything, and Curt Jackson and Hugh Dargan for painting, lifting and unloading heavy columns, and Chrissie & Mp for the 10x20' amazing backdrop execution.

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Georgia Home Show steams ahead this weekend

Dargan Landscape Architects hosts " Sustaining your Site" at the International World Congress Center on February 7-9 during the Georgia Home show. Questions about organizing your home site for maximum energy savings using solar and alternate energy forms, water harvesting and composting are most sought after topics. We've been busy producing a display from a recycled Palladian arbor and forced the bulbs for hte exhibit beginnign in October. Today (5 days before event) scilla, muscari, crocus, hyacinths and dwarf iris and slowly making their way into the world of color encouraged by our heat lamp and heating pad. Wish us luck!