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Master Gardener Offers Landscape Design Advice
By Rich Monetti
Master gardener Eleanor Hoffman, of the Cornell Cooperative Extension presented, "Landscape Design: Principals and Ideas," to home-owning gardeners at the John C. Hart Library on Nov. 6.
Approximately 20 attendees said they were there to get ideas about how to use their gardens, what to plant, and get tips on how to transform their gardens.
Hoffman told residents that design works best when the feet go first. She told them to walk around their gardens, get an idea of the dimensions, listen for the sounds of nature and take note of the sun and shade patterns.
The survey of building and natural structure, called hardscaping, she said forms the "backbone of the garden." Still, each oasis of green and granite should connect through focal points like a statue, arc or walkway.
"Spaces need to relate to each other so the landscape can be experienced in a sequence," she said.
For Lou Ann O'Brien gardening is a wonderful, creative activity, that's full of surprises.
"I have all these islands and I'd like to connect them to create a private sanctuary, but I don't know how to do it," she said of why she attended.
She said she had to go home and think it through, but the journey and the bloom that is punctuated every spring begins and ends in the same place for her.
"I can go out in the garden and in ten seconds I'm in heaven," she said.
At Christine Kelly-Edelman's house, the success of her vegetable garden is coinciding with a necessity to groom the landscape the right way.
"I need a master gardener to help me," she said.
Often a refurbishing doesn't go as far as needed, Hoffman said, because it does not do a drastic enough change. Either way, spacing can be overlooked and create unwanted overgrowth.
"You need to know what a plant's growth maturity looks like because over time the right spacing will fill in," she said.
Otherwise, a good garden should be expressive of the garden owner, while improper scale definitely stands out. "Every little detail will show, so proportions need to be in balance," she added.
Yorktown's Pauline Chang seemed not so far along in her gardening credentials but she was certainly open to suggestion. She said she attended the forum to find out what she could do with an empty space because she wasn't sure what to plant there.
In Cortland, Marilyn Elie has her hands full with a new house. Gardening is a passion and she said she knows creating the right landscape means you don't elevate one sense over another.
"I do a lot of walking, looking and listening," she said. "It's my art."
Master Gardeners like Eleanor Hoffman are trained in horticulture by the Cornell Cooperative Extension and give talks on a wide variety of gardening subjects throughout Westchester County.
Master gardener Eleanor Hoffman, of the Cornell Cooperative Extension presented, "Landscape Design: Principals and Ideas," to home-owning gardeners at the John C. Hart Library on Nov. 6.
Approximately 20 attendees said they were there to get ideas about how to use their gardens, what to plant, and get tips on how to transform their gardens.
Hoffman told residents that design works best when the feet go first. She told them to walk around their gardens, get an idea of the dimensions, listen for the sounds of nature and take note of the sun and shade patterns.
The survey of building and natural structure, called hardscaping, she said forms the "backbone of the garden." Still, each oasis of green and granite should connect through focal points like a statue, arc or walkway.
"Spaces need to relate to each other so the landscape can be experienced in a sequence," she said.
For Lou Ann O'Brien gardening is a wonderful, creative activity, that's full of surprises.
"I have all these islands and I'd like to connect them to create a private sanctuary, but I don't know how to do it," she said of why she attended.
She said she had to go home and think it through, but the journey and the bloom that is punctuated every spring begins and ends in the same place for her.
"I can go out in the garden and in ten seconds I'm in heaven," she said.
At Christine Kelly-Edelman's house, the success of her vegetable garden is coinciding with a necessity to groom the landscape the right way.
"I need a master gardener to help me," she said.
Often a refurbishing doesn't go as far as needed, Hoffman said, because it does not do a drastic enough change. Either way, spacing can be overlooked and create unwanted overgrowth.
"You need to know what a plant's growth maturity looks like because over time the right spacing will fill in," she said.
Otherwise, a good garden should be expressive of the garden owner, while improper scale definitely stands out. "Every little detail will show, so proportions need to be in balance," she added.
Yorktown's Pauline Chang seemed not so far along in her gardening credentials but she was certainly open to suggestion. She said she attended the forum to find out what she could do with an empty space because she wasn't sure what to plant there.
In Cortland, Marilyn Elie has her hands full with a new house. Gardening is a passion and she said she knows creating the right landscape means you don't elevate one sense over another.
"I do a lot of walking, looking and listening," she said. "It's my art."
Master Gardeners like Eleanor Hoffman are trained in horticulture by the Cornell Cooperative Extension and give talks on a wide variety of gardening subjects throughout Westchester County.
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