Mountain Brook Consulting offers workshops and lectures to organizations.
Contact Susan E. Schnare to discuss scheduling an event from
the list below, or one especially written for your occasion.
Mountain Brook Consulting
373 Elbow Pond Road
Andover, New Hampshire 03216
Email: hld@mtnbrook.com
Call: 603-735-5828
"Design a New Landscape for Your Old (or
not so old) House"
Create a landscape plan that suits both you and your house in
two one-day workshops for do-it-yourself homeowners that may be
taken separately. The first enables you to design a layout and
plan your project. The second deals with plant choices and matters
horticultural. Landscape Historian and Garden Designer
Susan E. Schnare will guide you step by step through the design
process. No design or drawing skills are necessary, just an interest
in history and/or gardens and the desire to create a pleasing,
practical home landscape. >
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"Historic Landscapes for Staff and Volunteers"
Interactive half-day workshops will be designed specifically for your site. Contact
Susan E. Schnare to discuss your program.
Slide/Lecture Presentations are 45 minutes each with Q & A time
"Landscaping Your Old
House"
Take a close
look at grounds and gardens of earlier times and learn how to
both rediscover the remnants of earlier landscapes and create
a landscape appropriate to the period and architecture of your
house while meeting your own needs and tastes. The fee for
this presentation will be reduced when combined with the workshop "Design
a New Landscape for your Old (or not so old) House."
"Landscaping your Victorian House"
Victorian gardens were famous for their excess and exuberance,
but what were the grounds of the average home like? Take another
look at the Victorian Era and learn how you can create a landscape
that will harmonize with your house while satisfying your own
personal needs and tastes. The fee for this presentation will
be reduced when combined with the workshop "Design a New Landscape
for your (or not so old) Old House."
"The History of the Rock
Garden"
Follow the
development of the rock garden from its origins in the 16 th
Century, through its popularity in 17 th and 18 th Great Britain,
to the creation of the famous Backhouse Nursery rock garden of
York in the 1850s. Through rarely seen
images, this presentation challenges the accepted premise that
the rock garden was a 20 th Century innovation by introducing
early natural scientists who developed the rock garden in their
efforts to grow alpines and became a popular garden feature until
the excesses of the Victorian Age attracted the scorn of proponents
of natural landscape style. This lecture, based on original
doctoral research, was first presented as the keynote lecture
at the Annual Meeting to the Scottish Branch of the Garden History
Society in Edinburgh.
"The Life and Work of
Robert Morris Copeland"
Follow
the life of this volatile, creative, and complex man from his
privileged childhood and unorthodox education, through his work
as eminent landscape designer and town planner, to his ill-fated
career as a Union Officer and early death. Copeland
(1830-1874) laid out landscapes, cemeteries, campuses, and towns
from western Pennsylvania to Nova Scotia, and spent his unconventional
life associating with the most famous literary, political figures,
and social reformers of the day. If he hadn't been dismissed
from the Union Army, he would have led the 54 th Regiment to
their death instead of Shaw. Copeland's praise for our
native flora, pleas that wild scenery be left unspoiled and old
varieties of roses and flowers be saved, and recommendations
that the natural lay of the land be observed make his book, Country
Life, a Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, & Landscape
Gardening (1859), still relevant.
Mountain Brook Consulting
373 Elbow Pond Road
Andover, New Hampshire 03216
Email: hld@mtnbrook.com
Call: 603-735-5828 |
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