Vanessa Gardner Nagel
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Overview
12517 NE 20th Ave Vancouver, Washington 98686Vanessa Gardner Nagel, APLD, NCIDQ, is an award-winning garden designer in the Pacific Northwest and author of Understanding Garden Design. She brings 30 years of design experience to her writing and lectures about garden design.
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Description
Vanessa Gardner Nagel, APLD, is an award-winning, eco-conscious garden designer, author of 'Understanding Garden Design', and the owner of Seasons Garden Design LLC. Vanessa is the Education Chair for the International Association of Professional Landscape Designers. Her 30 years of design experience include local and global commercial interior design projects and a vast array of landscape design projects. As a youngster, her grandfather bequeathed her with the love of plants and her mother taught her to weed in California. Vanessa has been carrying a shovel for more than 40 years and knows how to use it in her garden, Dragonfly Hollow.
Topics
The Irresistible Garden: Create Your Own Using Basic Design Principles - Turn your garden into an enticing siren that lures you in any season. Vanessa describes basic design principles, such as line, form, and balance, in a manner that makes designing a garden easy to understand.
Garden Circulation: A Maze to Amazing - Getting lost in your garden? Vanessa will discuss how to use space efficiently, how to determine direction, how to use focal points, subtle way-finding, safety, and more to help you establish paths and garden circulation that makes sense.
Structural Plant Placement: Locating Your Garden's Bones - Do you characterize your garden as 'Lost in Space"? Do you wonder what type of plant to put in which location? Learn methods to place structural plants that will create garden definition and keep you garden looking scrumptious all year long.
Paving and Fences and Gates - Oh My! Discover the variety of opportunity to enclose and get around in your garden.
Changing Gardens During Challenging Times Gardens change with socio-economic changes. Learn how you can keep up with the times in your own back (or front) yard.
Soft Hardscape: Selecting Outdoor Furniture and Fabrics Learn the specific criteria of selecting outdoor furnishings for your garden.
Low Maintenance, High Impact: Create A Fabulous Garden You Can Sit In
Intentional Serendipity: Designing Sustainable Gardens
Dramatic Landscape Lighting - Vanessa shows how avoiding the airport landing strip style of lighting can to a more interesting 'nightscaped' garden.
Beyond Arborvitae: The Tapestry Hedge - Vanessa shows how and why planning and planting multiple genii of shrubs in a border is a good alternative to the single species hedge.
Locations
Vanessa's next presentations are:
Portland, OR Convention Center for the Yard, Garden & Patio Show, Friday, Feb. 18 at 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 21 at 12:30 p.m.
Seattle, WA Convention Center for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Friday, Feb. 25 at 9:30 a.m.
San Mateo Event Center for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Wednesday, March 23 at 1:15 p.m.
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Audience Reviews
An Excellent Teacher
Janet Endsley from Mill Creek, WA - 08/03/2010 11:15:47
Vanessa Gardner Nagel ‘s seminar on ‘Understanding Basic Design Principles’ at the 2010 Northwest Flower & Garden Show received rave reviews from the audience. Using humor and a relaxed manner, she discussed the principles of garden design in a well-organized fashion that both beginners and more experienced gardeners could grasp. Her images reinforced the concepts perfectly. “She’s an excellent teacher, and she will likely write a good book” wrote one audience reviewer. “She was great - have her back!” said another. She will definitely be returning as a garden show speaker next year!
