THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN COUNCIL
of Massachusetts
Landscape Design Executive Board
| Chairman | Adriana F. M. O’Sullivan |
| Vice Chairman & Programs | Nancy L. Hubert |
| Recording Secretary | Joan Butler |
| Corresponding Secretary | Janet K. Brink |
| Treasurer | Georgia C. Papavasiliou |
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Standing Committees
| Advisor | Sally McGuire Muspratt |
| Advisor | Marion E. Ryan |
| Advisor | Joan W. Schofield |
| Membership | Mary Bowen Nokes |
| Hospitality | Joy E. A. Kreutzberg |
| Publicity | Frances Y. J. Wheeler (Fyj) |
Organized in 1963, the Landscape Design Council (LDC) of Massachusetts operates under the auspices of National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC) and is a special-subjects group of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. The purpose of LDC is to provide ongoing landscape-design education through speakers, workshops, and tours of outstanding public and private areas. The Massachusetts chapter is the largest Council in the US. It provides several judging panels for the New England Spring Flower Show and presents three awards.
The Membership
LDC members have completed the Landscape Design Study Program, a series of four 10-hour courses, and passed the required examinations, entitling them to become NGC-accredited Landscape Design Consultants. Members act in an advisory capacity to encourage awareness of the need for good landscape architectural practice, serving as guardians of environmental beauty by applying what they have learned to individual and community projects.
LDC members have completed the Landscape Design Study Program, a series of four 10-hour courses, and passed the required examinations, entitling them to become NGC-accredited Landscape Design Consultants. Members act in an advisory capacity to encourage awareness of the need for good landscape architectural practice, serving as guardians of environmental beauty by applying what they have learned to individual and community projects.
LDC members promote environmental interests through work on town committees and boards. Members have been responsible for landscaping projects of municipal buildings and other public areas in their cities and towns. A significant number have gone on to earn certificates in landscape design, or Master's degrees in landscape architecture, and to establish their own landscape-design businesses.
In July 2003, LDC members traveled to Cornish, New Hampshire, and Woodstock, Vermont, where most of the group stayed at the Woodstock Inn. Highlights of the trip included visits to the Cornish Colony Museum at "Mastlands"; the Saint-Gauden National Historic Site; Cider Hill Gardens and Art Gallery; the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in; and two private gardens, Gilnocky Farm and Twin Gables.
During September 2003, 53 LDC members traveled to New York City for tours of Battery Conservancy, NYC; Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, NYC; the New York Botanical Garden; Wave Hill, overlooking the Hudson River; and the Staten Island Botanical Garden's Chinese Scholar's Garden. Along the way the group also visited Wickham Park, in Manchester CT, and the Glebe House Museum and Gertrude Jekyll Garden, in Woodbury CT.
In July 2004, forty-five LDC members traveled to Mt. Desert Island, Maine. During the trip they visited several private gardens as well as Garland Farm, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, Thuya Garden and Lodge, Asticou Azalea Garden, Charlotte Rhoades Butterfly Garden, Cadillac Mountain, the Woodlawn Museum and Black House, and Lunaform.
In March 2006, LDC members attended the Philadelphia Flower Show, with stops along the way at Trombly Nursery, Monroe CT; Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia PA; and Duke Farms, Hillsborough NJ.
Becoming a Landscape Design Consultant
For more information about the Landscape Design Study Program, contact program chairman Terese D'Urso at 781-383-1143 or tdurso98@aol.com.
For more information about LDC, contact chairman Joan Schofield at 508-429-5781 or jsstargaz@msn.com
