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Overview

PO Box 219 South Kent, Connecticut 06785

I aim to always be accessible and informative – we’re all in this together and we gardeners have much to learn from each other. Images, which are constantly updated, are beautiful, inspiring and plentiful.

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Elegant Silvers

Description

 

Karen Bussolini is an award-winning freelance garden photographer, writer and lecturer published in books and magazines throughout the world, a NOFA-Accredited Organic Land Care Professional and a garden coach. Her former newspaper column, “Good Gardening,” explored the connections between our gardens, our community and the environment. Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden (Timber Press 2005), which she photographed and co-authored, has kept her busy lecturing throughout the US. The Homeowner's Complete Tree and Shrub Handbook (Storey Publishing) features more than 600 of her photographs. Look for her sixth book,Naturescape Your Yard, written by Beth Young, in 2011. www.agpix.com/karenbussolini; kbgarden@charter.net.

 

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Karen Bussolini Bio

 

Karen Bussolini has been a gardener as long as she can remember. She trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural photographer before specializing in garden photography, writing, lecturing and eco-friendly garden coaching. She is a NOFA (North American Organic Farmers Assoc.) Accredited Organic Land Care Professional.

 

Her photographs have appeared in Garden Design, Horticulture, House Beautiful, House and Garden, This Old House, Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, The American Gardener, Perennials, Native Plants, Organic Gardening, Country Living Gardener, McCall’s, Home, Metropolitan Home, Yankee, The New York Times and in many other magazines and books published throughout the world.

 

She was sole photographer for five books: The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Manual (Storey Publishing 2007), Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden (Timber Press 2005), which she co-wrote with Jo Ann Gardner, The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), A Country Garden for Your Backyard (Rodale Press 1993), Backyard Design: Making the Most of the Space Around Your House (Bulfinch Press, 1991, 1998). Naturescape Your Yard, a book in progress, with author Beth Young, will be published by Timber Press in 2011.

 

Karen Bussolini’s writing has been published in Garden Design, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, This Old House, The American Gardener, Woman’s Day Specials, McCall’s, Native Plants, Threads, Connecticut Home and Garden, Green Scene, Reader’s Digest Books’ Home Improvements Manual and other publications. Her weekly column in The Millbrook Independent explored the connections between gardens, the environment and the local community. She is known for her writing on gardening from personal experience.

 

She has presented slide lectures across the continent, to such groups as: National meetings: The Garden Writers Association, The Perennial Plant Association. Annual Meetings/Symposia: The Master Gardeners of Connecticut, The Herb Society of America Connecticut and Long Island Units, The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Ohio State University’s P.L.A.N.T. Seminars, The Kansas City Gardening Symposium, The Rochester Civic Garden Center Annual Spring Symposium, Green Bay Botanical Garden Fall Symposium, UConn Garden Conference, New Directions in the American Landscape. Lecture series: The New York Botanical Garden’s “American Gardening Lecture Series,” Santa Fe Gardens’ “Garden Gurus” seminars, The Huntington Library Art Collections & Botanical Gardens, The Freylinghuysen Arboretum and The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden lecture series, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Brookside Gardens, Green Spring Gardens and “Gardens of the Mississippi” aboard the riverboat The American Queen. Horticultural organizations: The Horticultural Society of New York, The San Diego Horticultural Society, The Southern California Horticulture Society, The Vancouver Hardy Plant Group, The Northwest Horticultural Society, The Whatcom Horticultural Society, The Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group, The Connecticut Horticultural Society, The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons and innumerable Garden Club of America and Federated Garden Clubs local meetings. Trade Shows: The Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association Annual (PLNA) Symposium, Ohio State University’s Nursery Short Course at the CENTS nursery trade show. Flower Shows: The Chicago Flower and Garden Show, the New England Spring Flower Show, The Connecticut Flower & Garden Show, The Maymont Flower Show (Richmond, VA).

 

She has taught at The New York Botanical Garden, Denver Botanic Gardens, The Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins, CO and Tohoono Chul Park in Tucson, AZ.

 

Media appearances include PBS television programs “Cultivating Life,” KLRU’s “Central Texas Gardener” and “Oklahoma Gardening” and live radio shows in California, Colorado, Mississippi, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

 

She won Garden Writers Association awards for photography in 2001, 2004 and 2007.

 

When photographing, she sees the world through the eyes of a gardener and painter. Although she travels far and wide, her roots are sunk deeply into the soil of a deer-infested mountainside in South Kent, Connecticut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topics

Creating Gardens that Move (Making dynamic gardens by using plants with energetic visual textures and plants that move; using design devices and materials to choreograph varied ways of moving through a garden)

 

Designing with Elegant Silvers (Using low-maintenance, deer and drought-resistant silver plants) Can be adapted to region, professional or home gardeners, with special emphasis on herbs, working with color, or other audience interests. Karen Bussolini is photographer and co-author of the Timber Press book, Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden.

 

Jazzing Up the Garden with Color and Contrast (Exciting intuitive ways to design plant combinations)

 

Gardening with Kids: Opening Eyes and Doors (Encouraging exploration and delight, connection with the natural world)

 

Solving Slopes (Strategies for turning challenging terrain into satisfying gardens with plants and hardscape)

 

Survival in the Darwinian Garden: Planting the Fittest (Put low-fuss plants where they want to be and enjoy low-care garden success)

 

Landscaping with Native Plants (Making beautiful gardens and landscapes while supporting wildlife and healing our compromised ecosystems)

 

Learning from My Mistakes: A Technophobe’s Guide to Garden Photography (Learning to see, whatever camera equipment is used) Additional workshop and/or critique available

 

Naturescape Your Yard – East (under development, will coincide with publication of Naturescape Your Yard by Timber Press in 2011)

 

Nature and Garden: Through the Photographer’s Eye (A photographer’s take on what makes a garden or landscape design compelling) This talk was commissioned for a native plants symposium to address designers working with native plants, but can be adapted to a general audience

 

The Unsung Season: Gardens in Winter (Planting beauty close to home for enjoyment from fall until spring, finding subtle beauty in the winter landscape). Karen Bussolini photographed The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter (Houghton Mifflin).

 

Where Bulbs Shine: Using Flowering Bulbs in the Landscape (Integrating spring-flowering bulbs in the designed landscape)

Locations

PO Box 219
South Kent, CT
06785