Gardens of Intrigue: Greenscapes of Magic and Mystery $15-$2...

2007-04-28 12:30:00 - 2007-04-28 00:00:00

$25

$20 Members

$15 Students

Heather Lenkin

An architect, and landscape and interior designer, Heather Lenkin will explore the natural splendor found in 21 gardens that surround her 1923 Italianate home. For 18 years she has planted, renovated, restored and rehabilitated the distinctive gardens on the 1-acre, steeply sloping hillside site to complement the home’s architecture and interior design. Multiple outdoor seating and dining areas and water features are incorporated into this plant collector’s garden, which now has more than 1,000 plant species and 10,000 bulbs. Garden Design magazine has called her work “history in the making.”

Lenkin will share her passion and award-winning garden design principles, including:Considerations of scale;

Enhancing existing architecture;Looking to historic sources;Linking the interior to the exterior;Choosing plants sympathetic to the climate;Using color, structure and light.

President of Lenkin Design in Pasadena, Heather Lenkin is a two-time winner of the Golden Trowel Award from Garden Design magazine honoring excellence in creating “America’s Best Gardens.” Her alma mater, the University of Arizona, has recognized her with its Professional Achievement Award and designated an area of the Norton School as the Heather Henricks Lenkin Honor Student Center.

Free tour: One acre, 21 gardens, Saturday, April 28, 2007

A self-guided tour of Heather Lenkin’s personal gardens will immediately follow the lecture.

This is part of The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series 2006-2007: The Continual Arts and Crafts Connection

Lecture Schedule

January 25, 2007 William Lees Judson: Craftsman at Heart, Painter by Trade

February 20, 2007 Rudolph M. Schindler: Architect, Builder, Theorist, Utopian

March 23, 2007 California in a Container: Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House

April 28, 2007 Gardens of Intrigue: Greenscapes of Magic and Mystery