Celebrate the first of May! Find out what's new with our ongoing
restoration of the historic Jay gardens and in a rehabilitaion of the
Jay Meadow. Meet Meadow Designer Larry Weaner and Thomas Woltz,
principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects . Cocktail
reception at the mansion and site tour. Members $10; Non-Members $20
LARRY WEANER has over 30 years of landscape design and installation
experience, combining expertise in horticulture, environmental
science, and the traditions of garden design. His design and
restoration work spans more then ten states and has been profiled in
national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Garden Design, American
Gardener, Wildflower Magazine, and ASLA’s “The Dirt” blog. Larry
has received numerous awards for his work, including the Landscape
Design Award from the New England Wildflower Society for use of native
plants in “exceptional and distinctive landscape compositions.”
The Garden Club of America recently awarded him an honorary
membership. His approach to creating and managing native landscapes
appeals to audiences nationwide. Larry has presented at American
Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meetings and state
chapter meetings, Association of Professional Landscape Designers
(APLD) events, Cultural Landscape Foundation tours, and the Garden
Writers Association National Conference. He has also spoken at the
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the New York Botanical Garden, the
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Mad Gardeners Conference, the
Millersville Native Plant Conference, Morris Arboretum of the
University of Pennsylvania, the National Arboretum in Washington, DC,
the National Wildlife Federation, the Native Plant Center at
Westchester Community College, the New England Grows conference, and
the U.S. Botanic Garden. He is a founding member of Association of
Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), a former member of APLD’s
Environmental Committee, and an Affiliate member of the American
Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). In 1990, Larry developed New
Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL), a conference and workshop
series dedicated to advancing the art and science of natural landscape
design. Co-sponsors of NDAL programs include the Atlanta Botanic
Garden, Brandywine Conservancy, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Connecticut
College Arboretum, Holden Arboretum, Morris Arboretum of the
University of Pennsylvania, Morton Arboretum, and Tower Hill Botanic
Garden, among others. This influential series has a loyal following in
the landscape field. Larry’s book Garden Revolution: How Our
Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change, co-authored with
Tom Christopher, will be released by Timber Press in May 2016 THOMAS
WOLTZ is the owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. He was
named the Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal
Magazine in 2013. In 2011, he was invested into the American Society
of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows, among the highest honors
achieved in the profession. During the past 19 years of practice,
Woltz has forged a body of work that integrates the beauty and
function of built form and craftsmanship with an understanding of
complex biological systems and restoration ecology that has yielded
hundreds of acres of reconstructed wetlands, reforested land, native
meadows, and flourishing wildlife habitat. His design work infuses
places where people live, work, and play with narratives of the land
that inspire stewardship. Many of these projects focus on restoration
of damaged ecological infrastructure within working farmland and
create models of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture. Woltz was
educated at the University of Virginia in the fields of architecture,
landscape architecture, fine art, and architectural history. He holds
master's degrees in Landscape Architecture and Architecture. After
working in Venice Italy and Paris France, he returned to the States to
launch his career in landscape architecture. Current work includes
projects at Hudson Yards (NYC), Memorial Park (Houston), Devonian
Botanic Garden (Alberta, Canada), and Cornwall Park (Auckland, New
Zealand). Woltz serves on the Boards of Directors of TCLF(The Cultural
Landscape Foundation) and MAS (The Municipal Art Society of New York).
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