Saturday, January 11; 8:30AM - 1:00PM
4-part Regenerative Garden Design Course
About This Event
Please call 626.821.4623 to register.
Think about your favorite garden spaces and imagine creating and implementing that vision at your own home or community. At the same time, ponder how you could be more sustainable in your design and realize a way to help nature regenerate through your landscape.
Join landscape architect, contractor, arborist and climate activist, Shawn Maestretti for a four part garden design course for an in depth journey through regenerative concepts and practices. Students will learn the principles and elements of design, how to capture rainwater, nurture living soil, design with native and climate-appropriate plants, re-purpose materials to reduce your carbon footprint, implement permaculture techniques to reduce green waste, and much more. It is possible to have a beautiful, well-orchestrated and truly regenerative landscape, we just need to push through a few barriers first.
This course is for everyone, homeowners and landscape professionals alike. We ask that you come with enthusiasm and an open mind. Students are suggested to attend all 4 classes.
Shawn is a designer, plantsman, licensed landscape architect, certified arborist, licensed landscape contractor, and educator. His unique background combines extensive horticultural experience, strong composition skills, and environmentally-sensible practices with a wide palette of visually and textually interesting California-friendly plants —breathing new life and a sense of place into every garden.
PRIOR TO CLASS – Students will receive instructions on preparing a scaled base plan 2 weeks prior to the first class
Saturdays, 8:30am-1pm
CLASS #1 (January 11, 2020) – Getting Started (w/ guest speaker)
CLASS #2 (January 25, 2020) – Elements/Principles of Design (w/ guest speaker)
CLASS #3 (February 8, 2020) – Rainwater Harvesting & Planting Design (w/ guest speaker)
CLASS #4 (February 22, 2020) – Implementation Practices (w/ guest speaker)
$250 Arboretum members
$300 non-members
$310 Arboretum members – couples
$360 non-member – couples
For questions, please call the Education Department at 626.821.4623.
Cost
$250 Arboretum members
$300 non-members
$310 Arboretum members - couples
$360 non-member - couples
More Information
Cancellation & Refund Policy
The Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation reserves the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the class non-viable. If the Arboretum cancels a class, registrants will be offered a full refund. There are no refunds for cancellations within 7 days of the start of the class. For all other cancellations, your payment will be refunded minus a 10% processing fee.
Questions? Please call the Education Department at 626.821.4623.
