1:30-2:30 pm Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
Julie Moir Messervy, Principal, Julie Moir Messervy Associates, Inc.
Saxtons River, Vermont Speaker Bio and Topic Details
3:00-4:00 pm Green Roofs in Delaware and Beyond
Ed Snodgrass, President, Emory Knoll Farms, Inc.
Street, Maryland Speaker Bio and Topic Details
Symposium Speakers
Rick Darke heads a Pennsylvania-based design firm that blends art, ecology, and cultural geography in the creation and conservation of livable landscapes. A celebrated photographer, Darke has written and illustrated multiple award-winning books, including The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Timber Press, 1999); In Harmony with Nature: Lessons from the Arts & Crafts Garden (Friedman, 2001); and The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest (Timber Press, 2002). His latest book, The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes (Timber Press, 2007), includes more than 1,000 of his photos of diverse landscapes around the world, including Winterthur. Formerly curator of plants at Longwood Gardens, Darke travels extensively in both hemispheres in search of plants and ideas to enrich North American gardens. In 1998, the American Horticultural Society honored Darke with its Scientific Award, which recognizes individuals "who have enriched horticulture through outstanding and notable research." Further information is available at www.rickdarke.com.
Serendipity and the New Wild Garden: Our landscape is in constant transition through space and time, purpose and palette, meaning and motivation. A truly sustainable approach to garden design balances our desire for control with our yearning for serendipitous discovery. Using examples of designed spaces and regional habitats, Rick Darke outlines an ethic for an evolving wild garden that celebrates the dynamics of cultural and biological diversity.
Panayoti Kelaidis is a plant explorer, gardener, and the director of outreach for the Denver Botanic Gardens where he designed the notable Rock Alpine Garden. Committed to both the art and science of horticulture, Kelaidis travels widely to research and collect plant species. He has taken numerous collecting trips to South Africa, the Andes, the Himalayas, Europe, and Turkey, introducing the plants of these areas to the North American gardening audience. Kelaidis has lectured in nearly 100 cities in 7 countries and has written more than 300 articles for popular and specialist publications. His many awards include the Boulder History Museum's 60 Year Living History Award and the Arthur Hoyt Scott Medal from the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College. Further information is available at www.geocities.com/panayotik/Kelaidiscope.html.
The Tapestry Garden: Recently introduced plants, such as evergreens from the Mediterranean, the American Southwest, South Africa, and the Himalayas are expanding the palette and textures available for garden borders throughout North America. Gardeners that understand these plants and how their foliage changes colors throughout the year are able to design new kinds of gardens, from water-conserving gardens and Mediterranean borders to scree and gravel gardens. In Denver, for example, the Xeriscape Garden, a garden that highlights drought-tolerant plants, has become a year-round tapestry of sensuous textures and colors. The tapestry garden can become a four-season delight, more versatile and adaptable than traditional perennial borders.
Julie Moir Messervy is an internationally recognized landscape designer and award-winning author. In 1999 she collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the City of Toronto to create the award-winning Toronto Music Garden, a three-acre public park based on the "First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello" by J. S. Bach. Messervy is a regular contributor to Fine Gardening magazine with her column "Inspired Design." Her design work and books, including Contemplative Gardens (Howell Press, 1990), The Inward Garden (re-release, Bunker Hill Press, 2007), The Magic Land (Macmillan, 1998), and Outside the Not So Big House (The Taunton Press, 2006), have been featured in leading newspapers and magazines around the world. In 2005 Messervy was awarded the Great American Gardeners Award for Landscape Design by the American Horticultural Society. She is the recipient of the Association for Professional Landscape Designer's 2006 Award of Distinction. Further information is available at www.juliemoirmesservy.com.
Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home: Julie Moir Messervy removes traditional design barriers between the home and its surroundings to produce a unified design: the landscape of home. As featured in her new book, Outside the Not So Big House, written in partnership with architect Sarah Susanka, Messervy's groundbreaking approach helps homeowners, gardeners, and professionals explore ways to embrace the habitat of home, compose journeys, link inside to out, and craft the elements of nature, extending the presence of home into the land.
Ed Snodgrass is a horticultural consultant and the owner and operator of Emory Knoll Farms, a perennial nursery that specializes in plants for green roofs and provides guidance on all aspects of green roof creation. The nursery currently stocks more than 100 varieties of green roof plants and more than 173,490 square feet of planted roofs. Snodgrass works with a wide range of roofing systems, soil mixes, climates, and manufacturers and designers. He and his staff help growers select the best plants for each installation, continuously test new plants, and support a variety of green roof research projects. A fifth-generation farm in
northern Maryland, Emory Knoll Farms is dedicated to sustainable design. Solar power pumps all the water used in the greenhouse, and photovoltaic cells supply most of the farm's electrical needs. Further information is available at www.greenroofplants.com.
Green Roofs in Delaware and Beyond: Ed Snodgrass discusses the technology and plants of green roofs, a relatively new innovation that involves covering the roofs of buildings with plants in soil. Typically, a green roof consists of a thin (2-3 inches) layer of soil and a drainage layer over a waterproof membrane. Green roof plants, usually short perennials and succulents, prevent erosion, retain rainwater, and provide insulation and cooling. In addition to creating a new and beautiful kind of garden, green roofs benefit the environment, reducing the need for storm drainage systems, creating biological diversity, and adding oxygen to the air.
Rick Darke heads a Pennsylvania-based design firm that blends art, ecology, and cultural geography in the creation and conservation of livable landscapes. A celebrated photographer, Darke has written and illustrated multiple award-winning books, including The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Timber Press, 1999); In Harmony with Nature: Lessons from the Arts & Crafts Garden (Friedman, 2001); and The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest (Timber Press, 2002). His latest book, The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes (Timber Press, 2007), includes more than 1,000 of his photos of diverse landscapes around the world, including Winterthur. Formerly curator of plants at Longwood Gardens, Darke travels extensively in both hemispheres in search of plants and ideas to enrich North American gardens. In 1998, the American Horticultural Society honored Darke with its Scientific Award, which recognizes individuals "who have enriched horticulture through outstanding and notable research." Further information is available at 
Panayoti Kelaidis is a plant explorer, gardener, and the director of outreach for the Denver Botanic Gardens where he designed the notable Rock Alpine Garden. Committed to both the art and science of horticulture, Kelaidis travels widely to research and collect plant species. He has taken numerous collecting trips to South Africa, the Andes, the Himalayas, Europe, and Turkey, introducing the plants of these areas to the North American gardening audience. Kelaidis has lectured in nearly 100 cities in 7 countries and has written more than 300 articles for popular and specialist publications. His many awards include the Boulder History Museum's 60 Year Living History Award and the Arthur Hoyt Scott Medal from the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College. Further information is available at 
Julie Moir Messervy is an internationally recognized landscape designer and award-winning author. In 1999 she collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the City of Toronto to create the award-winning Toronto Music Garden, a three-acre public park based on the "First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello" by J. S. Bach. Messervy is a regular contributor to Fine Gardening magazine with her column "Inspired Design." Her design work and books, including Contemplative Gardens (Howell Press, 1990), The Inward Garden (re-release, Bunker Hill Press, 2007), The Magic Land (Macmillan, 1998), and Outside the Not So Big House (The Taunton Press, 2006), have been featured in leading newspapers and magazines around the world. In 2005 Messervy was awarded the Great American Gardeners Award for Landscape Design by the American Horticultural Society. She is the recipient of the Association for Professional Landscape Designer's 2006 Award of Distinction. Further information is available at 
Ed Snodgrass is a horticultural consultant and the owner and operator of Emory Knoll Farms, a perennial nursery that specializes in plants for green roofs and provides guidance on all aspects of green roof creation. The nursery currently stocks more than 100 varieties of green roof plants and more than 173,490 square feet of planted roofs. Snodgrass works with a wide range of roofing systems, soil mixes, climates, and manufacturers and designers. He and his staff help growers select the best plants for each installation, continuously test new plants, and support a variety of green roof research projects. A fifth-generation farm in
northern Maryland, Emory Knoll Farms is dedicated to sustainable design. Solar power pumps all the water used in the greenhouse, and photovoltaic cells supply most of the farm's electrical needs. Further information is available at