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Landscape Design Schools


The NGC welcomes all interested gardeners to landscape design school whose purpose is to develop an appreciation of the environment, both natural and built.

The curriculum, in a series of four courses, covers a wide range of subjects: from landscape design history to landscape architecture in the year 2000 and beyond. Since its founding in 1958, professional instructors have maintained the high standards originally incorporated in the study program. Also offered are many optional programs, such as conferences, symposia and tours. Students acquire the tools for making their own gardens more beautiful and easier to maintain. Many students have been motivated to serve in political decision-making areas where awareness of the impact of a well-designed landscape can enhance the beauty and enjoyment of life in the public arena.

 

NEWSCAPES Fall 2011

   

 

2012

 Date: February 20-21, 2012…………………….College Station, TX
Course: 4
State Chairman: Janell H. Zeigler,  254-865-2904 

Date: February 28-29, 2012…………………Baton Rouge, LA
Course: 1
State Chairman: Clara Earl, 225-924-6429

Date: March 2-3, 2012………………….Augusta, GA
Course: 3
State Chairman: Jane A. Whiteman,  404-252-4473

Date: March 16-18, 2012………………..Helena, MT
Course: 1
State Chairman: Mary J. Olsen,  406-266-5695

Date: March 27-28 & 30, 2012………………..New Haven, CT
Course: 2
State Chairman: Leslie Martino, 203-389-4434

Date: March 29-30, 2012…………………………Gloucester, VA
Course: 3
State Chairman: Bill Smoot, 757-393-4617, e-mail: billsmoot@cox.net


Date: April 12-14, 2012……………….Mason,OH
Course: 2
State Chairman: Barbara A. Shepard,  614-890-4627

Date: April 17,18, 20, 2012…………………East Brunswick, NJ
Course: 4
State Chairman: Nancy Schmaltz, 732-741-1943 

 

 

Date: April 24-26, 2012………………Normandy Park, WA
Course: 3
State Chairman: JoAnn Goldman, 206-362-3201

May 23-25, 2012………………….Morgantown, WV
Course: 2
State Chairman: Donna Davis,  304-684-3136

Date: September 19-21, 2012……………………………..Bowling Green, KY
Course: 1
State Chairman: Martha Morgan, 270-781-5695

Date: September 19-21, 2012…………………….Derwood, MD (NCA)
Course: 4
State Co-Chairman: Dianne Gregg,  301-299-6456,State Co-Chairman: Paula Knepper,  301-424-7582

Date: October 12-13, 2012…………………Kearney, NE
Course: 1
State Chairman: Alice Hemsath,  308-224-3771

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: October 31- November 2, 2011……..Derwood, MD
Course: 3
State Co-Chairman: Dianne Gregg and Paula Knepper, 301-299-6456 

Date: November 7-9, 2011 ……… Charleston, SC
Course: 1
State Chairman: Susan McLeod Epstein, 12 843-556-5343  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 10-11, 2011 ……… Warrenville, IL
Course: 4
State Chairman: Julie A. Hansen 847-291-9639

April 12-13, 2012 ............Cincinnati, OH
Course: 2
Event Chairman Barbara Shepard, 614-890-4627

Date: April 19-20, 2012 …………………………….Ludington, MI
Course: 2
State Chairman: Terry Harding, 231-947-0568 

 

For information about a course near you, contact the chairman listed or the NGC Landscape Design Chairman, Jane R. Bersch  609-654-6580

 

ATTENTION SCHOOL CHAIRMEN


Please amend your Operations Guides to conform to these new policies.

At the NGC Fall Board Meeting in St. Louis on Friday, October 2, 2009 the NGC Executive Committee recommended and the Board of Directors approved the following changes to become effective as of January 1, 2010 for Environmental Studies, Gardening Study and Landscape Design Schools both virtual and on-site courses:

Recommendations Passed:


  1. That all time restrictions for students between courses for Gardening Study, Environmental Studies and Landscape Design Schools be removed from all school course material.
  2. That Gardening Study, Environmental Studies and Landscape Design Schools be permitted the option of conducting back-to-back courses.
  3. Refresher credit for consultant and master consultants will be granted once only within a calendar year beginning in the year following receipt of consultant or master consultant certification. (This recommendation remains in effect.)
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