The GLDA will hold its seventeenth successive annual design seminar on the 6th of April, 2013. This day long event entitled ‘Simply Gardens…Design Inspiration for your Soul’ will bring together four speakers from the world of gardens and garden design in Sweden, the UK and Ireland respectively. The event will be held in the Conference Centre at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown. Tickets are competitively priced at €95 for members of the public, €85 for Association Friends and €50 for students. Annual Friend membership of the association can be purchased at €35.00, for which you will receive copies of Compass, Ireland’s landscape and garden design journal and reduced entry to all GLDA events.
“Parks and Gardens – Public and Private, a reflection”
Swedish designer Ulf Nordfjell, a leading landscape architect based in Stockholm, is well known for his interest in combining architecture and design with horticulture and sustainability. His passion for designing with plants can be seen in all of his projects which take into consideration the variable circumstances and climates of the surrounding environment. Ulf shares his work time between public spaces, working with Ramböll Sweden, and private spaces through his own practice, Lunab. He has created several exhibits in Sweden that have been internationally recognized, and generated a new interest in Swedish garden design. He has won many prizes for his landscape architecture in Sweden, and this year will see his return to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for a third time, with his design for The Laurent-Perrier Garden. He has previously won two RHS Gold medals and one best in Show in 2009 for his Chelsea garden designs. www.nordfjellcollection.se
“Dancing With Borders”
British designer James Alexander Sinclair began his career as a landscape contractor in London before turning to full time garden design in the early 1990’s. His portfolio of work spans private gardens from the South of France to the Western Isles, as well as show gardens at both the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the Westonbirt International Festival of the Garden. No stranger to television, he has presented programmes on both the BBC and Channel 4, including coverage of Chelsea. He lectures widely on gardens, is a garden Judge, and has recently been elected to the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society. His monthly column in both The English Garden and Gardeners World Magazine, as well as numerous other published articles for Gardens Illustrated, The Garden, Crocus, the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian to name just a few, earned him a ‘Finalist’ place for Garden Journalist of the Year 2010. His Blackpitts blog has won the Garden Media Guild ‘Blog of the Year’ Award twice. James has recently started up, into Gardens, the first iPad magazine app about gardens. www.blackpits.co.uk
“Plants before People”
> Irish designer Jane McCorkell practices as a garden & landscape architect and landscape horticultural consultant, having gained degree qualifications in both Landscape Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Jane has received recognition for her work with Five Gold Medals from Bloom in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011, along with a Best in Show Award in 2010 and 2012. She has also received an Award of Merit for a Private Garden from the ALCI 2010. Her work has been widely published by Homes and Garden, The Book of Gardens, Passie Voor Tuinen, The Garden Design Journal, Horticulture Weekly, The Irish Times, and many other Irish Newspapers and Publications. “I love to feel inspired by my surroundings, and plants, gardens, landscape, and the great outdoors make me very happy. I am a very visual person, and therefore very aware of what I see and feel” Jane www.janemccorkelllandscape.ie
“Where two or more are gathered to garden, patterns for the soul are born”
Irish plantsman Ciaran Burke walks, talks, breathes and eats horticulture and gardening. Based in Co. Mayo in the west of Ireland he runs The Garden School, an RHS approved teaching and examination centre, with his wife Hanna Tuuri-Burke. Through his teaching at the school, he strives to inspire others to achieve not only beautiful gardens but to follow sustainable practices, and to consider the environmental impact of their gardening activities. Ciaran believes that horticulture can be more than a profession, and gardening more than a hobby. It can enrich the lives of all people in our communities in a meaningful way, and foster an appreciation and respect for the natural environment. Ciaran’s garden writing and photography is regularly featured in a number of publications including, The Irish Garden, Ur Dream Home and Organic Matters. In 2012 he started ‘The New Growth Project’, a charity initiative that provides free horticultural training to unemployed people. www.thegardenschool.ie
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